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David Hall

David Hall is the Director of the Public Services International Research Unit of the University of Greenwich, UK. His research is centered on the issues of water, energy and healthcare, and he is a former coordinator of the Watertime project, funded by the European Commission. Before joining PSIRU he worked at the Public Services Privatisation Research Unit, which developed a database on privatisation for the UK trade unions. He has been a lecturer at the World Bank water division, and has been an invited speaker on water and related issues to the UN, OECD, ILO, UNCTAD, Economic and Social Committee of the EU and at meetings organised by unions and civil society organisations in over 30 countries.

Web: http://www.psiru.org
  • Economics

    Debunking the deregulation myth

    22nd November 2011 — Filed under: Economics

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    Three years after the financial sector triggered a global recession, not much has changed in world of bank regulation. The financial liberalisation introduced since the 1980s remains defiantly in place, discussion of regulation is still dominated by a ‘hands-off’ approach, and the international institutions are still promoting financial liberalisation and market-friendly regulation as the correct policies.

    But new research has just been published which shows very clearly that these policies are wrong – and that they are in fact highly damaging. Remarkably, this evidence comes in a research paper published by the IMF.

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