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The future of the welfare state

Minouche Shafik [1] interviewed by Tim Phillips [2], 07 June 2019

This week UN special rapporteur claimed the UK's social safety net has been "replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos". Dame Minouche Shafik, director of the LSE, talks to Tim Phillips about whether our welfare states can survive in their current form, and what might replace them.

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Topics:  Economic history [5] Poverty and income inequality [6] Welfare state and social Europe [7]

Tags:  welfare state [8], anti-poverty policies [9]

Gerd Altmann

Source URL: https://voxeu.org/vox-talks/future-welfare-state

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[1] https://voxeu.org/user/222763
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/250023
[3] itpc://www.voxeu.org/rss.php?q=itunes_podcast
[4] https://voxeu.org/article/measuring-welfare-effects-ai-and-automation
[5] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/economic-history
[6] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/poverty-and-income-inequality
[7] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/welfare-state-and-social-europe
[8] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/190
[9] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/6065