Category: Productivity

Blog: Rolling back the state will never deliver equality

by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth

How do we mend capitalism and end populism? The populism that is fuelled by surging inequality around the world? After two years of hard graft, the IPPR has answers. Today, its commission on economic justice, whose members include the Archbishop of Canterbury, has produced its final report. It [...]

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Blog: Prosperity and the productivity puzzle

by Charlotte Alldritt

The pursuit of inclusive growth is a challenge facing national government leaders across the world. From South Africa, Brazil and India, to the Congo, Egypt and Barbados, countries are developing strategies to ensure as many people as possible can contribute to and benefit from economic [...]

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Blog: Time to Rewrite the Rules: Remarks to the OECD Global Parliamentary Network Meeting on Inclusive Growth...

by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth

[embeddoc url=”https://www.inclusivegrowth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Rewrite-The-Rules-Remarks-to-OECD-Inclusive-Growth-Conference-v2.0-KIND2c-Harry.pdf” download=”all”] House of Commons Library Research Research suggests British people worried by growing [...]

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Blog: Inclusive Job Growth: Companies, Sectors and Places

by Mark Hepworth, Co-Founder and Director of Research and Policy, The Good Economy

The Good Economy co-founder, Mark Hepworth, shares new ratings of regions and sectors to see where inclusive growth is needed most.

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Blog: A national investment bank could support enterprise and be a path to more sustainable growth

by Justin Protts, Chief Economist at Civitas

Since the financial crisis, economic growth has mainly been driven by the combination of a larger workforce and greater consumer spending. This is unsustainable. For growth to be experienced by everyone and to be sustainable then each worker will need the ability to produce and earn more. [...]

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Blog: Business: an essential partner for creating an inclusive economy

by Tom Levitt, former MP for High Peak

When the post-war global movers and shakers came together almost 70 years ago, on a piece of philanthropically-gifted real estate in New York, they were driven to act to save the planet from war and other challenges. The then 58 members of the United Nations absorbed the International Labour [...]

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Blog: UK recovery now worse than after Great Depression

by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth

The research confirmed that the path of the recession in 1929-31 followed a similar path to the crisis of 2008-09 but the recovery over the last ten years has been much slower. Ten years after the Wall Street financial crash, Britain had left the Gold Standard and, like today, pursued a policy [...]

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Blog: Building a more resilient and inclusive global economy

by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

Thank you, Jean-Claude Trichet and Guntram Wolff, for your kind introductions. And thank you to Bruegel for hosting this event here at the wonderful Bibliothèque Solvay. As I experience this beautiful building, it reminds me that good architecture is not about geometry or design in the first [...]

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Blog: A country that works for everyone? Only with inclusive growth

by Stephanie Flanders, Chair of the RSA Inclusive Growth Commission

Britain’s vote to leave the EU has forced into the open a fundamental and increasingly urgent debate about the country’s future. Should we pursue a more Singaporean model of economic growth, with low taxes and tariffs to attract investment and trade? Or should we seek to ‘regain control’ of our [...]

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Blog: Skilling up the regions: Unlocking the UK’s productivity potential

by Michael Kane, Senior Director at PwC

The current skills system is not delivering the skills that UK businesses or the economy needs. Skills shortages consistently top the list of concerns of business leaders in our annual Global CEO survey, while the lack of powers over skills is a concern for local leaders. This means a new model [...]

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Thank you Mr Speaker It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I beg to move the motion in my name and I hope you will forgive me the beginning with a short hymn of praise to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was at his behest that I and others founded the All-Party Parliamentary […]

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Blog: Prosperity and the productivity puzzle

The pursuit of inclusive growth is a challenge facing national government leaders across the world. From South Africa, Brazil and India, to the Congo, Egypt and Barbados, countries are developing strategies to ensure as many people as possible can contribute to and benefit from economic [...]

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Blog: Time to Rewrite the Rules: Remarks to the OECD Global Parlia...

[embeddoc url=”https://www.inclusivegrowth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Rewrite-The-Rules-Remarks-to-OECD-Inclusive-Growth-Conference-v2.0-KIND2c-Harry.pdf” download=”all”] House of Commons Library Research Research suggests British people worried by growing [...]

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Blog: Inclusive Job Growth: Companies, Sectors and Places

The Good Economy co-founder, Mark Hepworth, shares new ratings of regions and sectors to see where inclusive growth is needed most.

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