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17 September 2019
Alumna explores the issue of public safe spaces for women

Quratulain Fatima (MPP 2015) has written an article in Apolitical highlighting the importance of safe spaces for women. Drawing from her own experience as a city administrator in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, she argues that, in areas with high levels of street harrassment, women-only safe spaces are often the best solution in the immediate term.

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Professor Jonathan Wolff retires from the Blavatnik School of Government

Professor Jo Wolff, the inaugural Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy, first joined the School in 2016. Almost a decade later, the School is marking his retirement with an event and celebration of his career.

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Findings on immigration and the welfare state

Higher immigration tends to increase welfare spending, but its overall fiscal impact is usually small and can be positive, according to Isabel Ruiz and colleagues in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Meanwhile, public attitudes toward taxation and welfare redistribution are closely tied to perceptions and feelings about immigration.

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