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UK referendum and income distribution, by Robert H Wade
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Large numbers of those who voted in favour of leaving the EU in the UK’s In/Out referendum — 51.9% of voters voted Out — did so less from a negative assessment of EU membership than from anger at their falling relative income over the past years and worry that their children would fare economically even worse than them. This conclusion comes both from poll and media interviews conducted after the vote closed, and from the fact that the day after the referendum the second most frequently asked question of Google, among all the EU-related questions, was “what is the EU?”

The Remain camp argued that Britain has done well and will continue to do well economically from EU membership. But the claims of a British boom ring hollow to those who are unemployed, or on zero-hours contracts, or forced off benefits.

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Georgia: neoliberalism and industrial policy, by Robert H Wade
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I visited Georgia in late April, at the invitation of Tato Khundadze at the Centre for Social Studies, a small social democratic thinktank supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and also of Gia Jorjoliani, leader of a small social democratic party (Social Democrats for the Development of Georgia) and chairman of a parliamentary committee on environmental protection.

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Living where you do not make the rules, by Robert H Wade
English edition blogs, 1 February
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Recently I spent some days in the West Bank, which together with Gaza and part of Jerusalem forms the Occupied Palestinian Territories, occupied by Israel since the war of 1967. I had never before been to any of the territory known as the Levant, between Anatolia and Egypt. What follows is a reflection on my experience, as a perfect outsider.