The LSE is holding a conference February 2018 focused on how the future development of the welfare state can best overcome the challenges of globalisation, ageing, technological change and automation, income inequality, and related pressures on demand for services, their costs, and public capacity and willingness to pay for them.
The new director of the LSE has provided a broad but succint summary scoping analysis in
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