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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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.
Read moreBlog: 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. [...]
Read moreBlog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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 [...]
Read moreBlog: 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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