From 2010 the UK entered an ‘age of austerity’, with major cuts to welfare payments. We study link between these and increases in hate crimes. Using a panel 313 Community Safety Partnerships areas England Wales, we show that for each £100 loss per working age adult, racially or religiously motivated crimes rose by approximately 5-6% 2013/14 2014/15. These effects are large given mean £450 adult...

Doctors performing brain surgery by flashlight during a blackout necessitated by a Japanese air raid. The austerity of the surroundings is evident in the lack of medical equipment and supplies. Just as the wounded soldier moves along a pathway from injury, to triage, to care, to recovery, military physicians need to travel along their own pathway of understanding themselves as both physician an...

BACKGROUND The European Union member countries reacted differently to the 2008 economic and financial crisis. However, few countries have monitored the outcomes of their policy responses, and there is therefore little evidence as to whether or not savings undermined the performance of health systems. We discuss the situation in Portugal, where a financial adjustment program was implemented betw...

Abstract This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of intensifying crisis in care for older people United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how is intersectional social reproduction worsened by both austerity COVID-19. We do this through analysis small set interviews with South Asian women needs, conducted during first pe...

The civil justice system has been in a constant flux in the past decades due to changes in society and litigants’ behaviour, as well as the increased factual and legal complexity of cases. The number of cases has been steadily increasing in many countries while the available budget required for more judicial staff, improving judicial case management, digitalisation of processes, and the require...

Increasing fiscal deficits raise the possibility that many advanced economies will reach a state at which taxes and spending can no longer adjust to stabilize debt, which eventually leads governments to implement “unpleasant” fiscal austerity measures. In this paper, we study the macroeconomic and welfare effects of reducing government debt. We formulate a dynamic general equilibrium, overlappi...

Economic hardship accompanying large recessions can lead families to terminate unplanned pregnancies. To assess whether abortions have risen during the recession, we collected crude abortion data from 2000 to 2012 from Eurostat for countries that had legal abortions and complete data. Declining trends in abortion ratios between 2000 and 2009 have been reversing. Excess abortions between 2010 an...