Sharan Burrow

We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't.

Recent elections in Europe have confirmed that governments who don't create jobs will feel the anger of voters.

The public is losing faith that...

The concept of "green jobs" or a "green economy" is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

The idea that we can build a strong economy while improving our environment and reducing global warming is seen as pure...

Models are the hot topic at this week's gathering of political and business heavyweights in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF).

Not of the pouting, long-legged variety who strut the catwalk, but economic models -- those invisible and mysterious systems that not...

Cannes, the glamorous French Riviera resort town with its seasonal influx of movie stars and streets lined with mansions well past their glory, epitomizes the distance between the rich and poor.

It is a strangely apt venue for a conference to pull the global economy up by its bootstraps.

As the G20 meeting looms, the anger directed at the banks is understandable. But it's a bit like being angry that a dog should chase a cat: we yell at the dog, but the real problem is that the dog is off the leash.

There is much righteous -- and...