Economy 2030· Productivity & industrial strategy· Cities and regions Stagnation Nation The role of Greater Manchester in renewing the UK’s economic strategy for the 2020s Wednesday 12 October 2022 …restructuring after Brexit and the pandemic, and urgently transitioning towards a net zero future. But it is doing that against a backdrop of low growth and high inequality, a toxic… READ MORE
Economy 2030· Firms· Productivity & industrial strategy· Brexit & trade· Cities and regions The Big Brexit An assessment of the scale of change to come from Brexit 22 June 2022 by Swati Dhingra and Emily Fry and Sophie Hale and Ningyuan Jia …the Economy 2030 Inquiry. This report finds that the expected large relative decline in UK-EU exports haven’t occurred and instead Brexit appears to be weighing on both UK openness and… READ MORE
Economy 2030· Net zero· Firms· Productivity & industrial strategy· Brexit & trade· Economic growth Stagnation Nation? The Economy 2030 Inquiry conference Wednesday 13 July 2022 The UK is facing a decisive decade of economic change, as we emerge from the pandemic, adjust to Brexit, and urgently transition towards a net zero future. Some hope these… READ MORE
Productivity & industrial strategy· Pay· Economic growth Dead-end relationship? Exploring the link between productivity and workers’ living standards 16 January 2020 by Matthew Whittaker …and economic backdrop would certainly help (business investment has fallen in five of the last six quarters, with firms understandably delaying decisions until such time as the Brexit outlook clears),… READ MORE
Living standards· Productivity & industrial strategy· Pay· Economic growth Decoupling wages and recoupling living standards Top of the Charts 30 November 2018 Afternoon all, This week saw several major studies on the economic impacts of Brexit end games. Obviously you shouldn’t read them all, partly because you’ve got lives to lead,… READ MORE
Firms· Productivity & industrial strategy· Economy and public finances· Economic growth Time to concentrate on our capitalism 26 July 2018 by Torsten Bell and Daniel Tomlinson Our politicians are anxious. And not just because no-one has a decent poll lead or idea where Brexit will end up. No, some are finding the time to get anxious… READ MORE
Firms· Productivity & industrial strategy· Economic growth Is everybody concentrating? Recent trends in product and labour market concentration in the UK 26 July 2018 by Daniel Tomlinson and Torsten Bell …the fact that much of our competition regime’s policy and enforcement work is managed by the EU. Brexit may very well change this, adding to the imperative for an up… READ MORE
Budgets & fiscal events· Productivity & industrial strategy· Economy and public finances Hammond’s goal in this Budget should be to restart the productivity engine 20 November 2017 by Matthew Whittaker …business uncertainty (stemming first from the financial crisis fall-out and more recently from Brexit) acting as a barrier to long-term planning. Given that productivity growth effectively represents free money, governments… READ MORE
Productivity & industrial strategy· Economy and public finances· Economic growth The living standards cost of the OBR’s newfound productivity pessimism 10 October 2017 by Matthew Whittaker …some of the post-crisis performance represented a reduction in trend productivity growth. The second reflected expectations of a near-term Brexit effect on investment resulting from the uncertainty generated by the… READ MORE
