Category: Skills and the labour market

Blog: Power to Change Capitalism for Good: The IPPR’s Economic Justice Commission

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

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: 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: 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: What we’re reading: Tuesday 20th February

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

How to create good work and inclusive growth in a 21st century economy David Burch, Policy & Research at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) According to official government statistics, 2017 saw the British economy witness its highest period of employment since records began, [...]

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Blog: Inclusive growth through unlocking the potential of offenders

by Jenny Ames, Director at Jenny Ames Consulting, and James Crabbe, Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University

In November 2017, the UK government published its industrial strategy white paper. This sets out how businesses will be supported to grow the economy in the future. Also in 2017, the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee published its fifth report, Support for ex-offenders. While at first [...]

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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: The UK economy needs fundamental reform

by Michael Jacobs, Director of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice

Last week’s announcement by the Bank comes at a time when the UK’s growth forecasts are being downgraded and average real wages are falling. The MPC’s warning is solely a reflection of its mandate to control inflation: since the EU referendum vote, the depreciation of the pound has been pushing [...]

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Blog: Why don’t we just… make sure economic growth benefits everyone?

by Jane Thomas, Member of Sheffield’s Our Fair City Advisory Group

In the recent Budget, the Chancellor acknowledged that too many families are still feeling the squeeze, almost a decade on from the financial crash. Theresa May and Philip Hammond have both promoted the goal of inclusive economic growth or an “economy that delivers for everyone” yet there is no [...]

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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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Blog: Social Policy: a vital partner in any inclusive growth strategy

by Hannah Lambie-Mumford, Research Fellow at Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI)

The inclusive growth agenda provides a unique opportunity to reconnect people with the economy and build a fairer, more equitable society. As we work towards this, however, social policy will necessarily need to play a central role; keeping focus on the needs and aspirations of all people, [...]

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