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In a private property market where supply is restricted, increased family wealth can simply drive up the cost of suitable homes

Improvements in the education of girls is one of the most positive shifts in the developing world over the past decade. Supported by aid agencies, including Camfed and more recently the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, efforts to send girls to primary and secondary school and on to further and higher education have made great strides.

In his new year message, the pope will urge rich countries to support the education of poor children as part of a big debt relief programme in the 2025 papal jubilee year.

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People have been saving more, thanks to pay growth and cooling inflation, but th...

While Labour’s critics are circling, pay growth is resilient and inflation is cooling

Not everything has gone smoothly for Keir Starmer. At the end of Labour’s first calendar year in power since Gordon Brown was in Downing Street a decade and a half ago, the prime minister is on the back foot after a run of disappointing economic updates.

With a backlash over several unpopular tax and spending decisions, and as pressure mounts for a change in course early in the new year, the new government is in danger of losing control of its primary mission to revive Britain’s misfiring economy.

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