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Thomas Sampson speaks to presenter Tim Harford about the US tariffs on global trade that were announced by president Donald Trump on 2 April 2025 ... Read more...
4 April 2025
Richard Layard writing in the Financial Times, says that a clear commitment to train young people for work will help the government's economic agenda. ... Read more...
21 March 2025
Paul Cheshire and Christian Hilber comment on proposed changes to the planning system in Britain, arguing the government has shied away from the reform that is needed. ... Read more...
4 March 2025
Lee Elliot Major writes about the need for new financial arrangements for universities to uphold the principle that a university education should be accessible to all. ... Read more...
21 January 2025
John Van Reenen has spent his professional lifetime probing the weak spots of the UK economy. Now he is based in an office next to Reeves's at the Treasury, with his three fellow advisers. One Labour source says they str... Read more...
17 January 2025
Research from the Centre for Economic Performance, a think tank based at the London School of Economics, said Brexit led to a 6.4 per cent drop in the UK's global exports. ... Read more...
18 December 2024
Brexit has hit UK trade less than many forecasters predicted thanks to larger companies adapting to red tape at the border, according to research by the London School of Economics. Researchers estimated UK worldwide good... Read more...
The damage from Brexit to trade links with the EU cost the UK £27bn in the first two years, but the overall impact was more limited than forecasters first estimated, according to the most comprehensive review of th... Read more...
The Port Talbot steel works is closing its last remaining blast furnace, delivering a shattering blow to the economy and society of a South Wales town where employment and wages were once so strong it became known as Tre... Read more...
15 September 2024
The 'shock' caused by restrictions introduced during the pandemic in 2020 could take 'seven years to erode', warn Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno. ... Read more...
6 September 2024
The average rate of school absences not caused by Covid-19 self-isolation doubled after the pandemic, research by Stephen Gibbons, Sandra McNally and Piero Montebruno has found. ... Read more...
Spending extra cash on mental health services would boost economic growth and improve the nation’s wellbeing more than building new roads, according to an academic analysis from the London School of Economics. Rich... Read more...
3 September 2024
Forcing workers to retire later would free up funding for policing and mental health services and "reduce misery" in Britain, a report co-authored by Richard Layard and published by the London School of Economics has sai... Read more...
Academics have an opportunity to exert more influence in policymaking with demand for robust evidence on the rise, according to Richard Layard, co-author of a report that seeks a "radical change in the government's spend... Read more...
Spending money on mental health support teams in schools saves more money than it costs within two years, researchers from the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance have said. Lord Layard, who led t... Read more...
Richard Layard writes that Labour must apply the wellbeing-to-cost test to every departmental proposal in the spending review. ... Read more...
A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain's young people are falling behind. Lord Richard Layard talks about a fundamental injustice in Britain's edu... Read more...
20 August 2024
Ucas is reforming personal statements from next year. Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said he believed the reform was a "significant step in making the university admissions ... Read more...
18 July 2024
John Van Reenen, an innovation expert and former Downing Street policy adviser under Tony Blair’s New Labour government, will head the body, which is expected to sit within the heart of the Treasury. Sources close ... Read more...
11 July 2024
From ending zero-hours contracts to boosting benefits, Britain's new government wants to shift power back to staff. Stephen Machin, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth explain how the power balance stands now. ... Read more...
7 July 2024
Daniel Chandler writes that to address the vast inequalities in the United States, a fundamental rethink of economic institutions and the values that guide them is needed. ... Read more...
14 May 2024
Lee Elliot Major outlines how the learning loss suffered by pupils during Covid-19 and the resulting decline in social mobility could be the most enduring legacy of the pandemic, explaining why policies that help level t... Read more...
24 April 2024
Lee Elliot Major's research predicts a steady decline in GCSE results of key subjects until 2030, attributing it to the failure to address the academic and social legacies of school closures during the pandemic. ... Read more...
The World Happiness Report 2024 reveals that those in the UK feel they have a greater sense of freedom than Germans and believe there is less corruption in the country. When looking at age demographics, the largest gap b... Read more...
20 March 2024
The 2024 World Happiness Report found that lack of education, training and housing is behind loss of gen Z's traditionally positive outlook. Richard Layard, one of the report's authors, is clear that more effort is... Read more...