The Economy 2030 Inquiry is examining the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating it.

For the past year, researchers from the Resolution Foundation and CEP have been publishing reports and discussing the impact of Covid-19, Brexit and the net zero transition on the UK economy.

Click here to read reports and watch events from the first six months of the inquiry. Catch up with what’s been going on since November 2021 below.

The inquiry is a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

Find out more on the Economy 2030 website.

Brexit

Report: Under new management: How immigration policy change will, and won’t, affect the UK’s path to becoming a high-wage, high-productivity economy (17 Feb 2022)
Event: On the road: How will post-Brexit migration changes change Britain? (17 Feb 2022)
Event: Pivot Pivot! Assessing the UK’s new Indo-Pacific trade focus (26 Jan 2022)
Report: More trade from a land down under: The significance of trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand (20 Dec 2021)

Covid-19

Report: Social mobility in the time of Covid (26 Dec 2021)
Report: Begin again? Assessing the permanent implications of Covid-19 for the UK’s labour market (23 Nov 2021)
Event: Back to the future: What comes next for the UK’s post-pandemic labour market? (23 Nov 2021)

Firms

Event: Disruption nation: How economic and political change has shaped our world - Book launch for Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson (23 Feb 2022)

Firms

Report: A presage to India: Assessing the UK’s new Indo-Pacific trade focus (26 Jan 2022)
Report: Enduring strengths: Analysing the UK’s current and potential economic strengths, and what they mean for its economic strategy, at the start of the decisive decade (28 Apr 2022)
Event: Advantage Britain? Understanding the country’s economic strengths (28 Apr 2022)
Event: A firm solution? How businesses can rise to the challenges facing Britain in this decisive decade - Speech by the Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership Sharon White (21 Feb 2022)
Event: Open for business? Assessing the performance of British firms (15 Nov 2021)

Net Zero

Report: Growing clean: Identifying and investing in sustainable growth opportunities across the UK (23 May 2022)
Event: Green growth: miracle or mirage (23 May 2022)
Report: Shrinking footprints: The impacts of the net zero transition on households and consumption (1 Mar 2022)
Event: Consuming carbon: What does the net zero transition mean for households? (1 Mar 2022)

People

Report: Low Pay Britain 2022: Low pay and insecurity in the UK labour market (25 May 2022)
Event: Raising the bar: What are the new frontiers for tackling low pay? (25 May 2022)
Report: Listen up: Individual experiences of work, consumption and society (11 May 2022)
Event: Whose economy? Exploring people’s experiences as workers, consumers and citizens (11 May 2022)
Event: The office strikes back: Can post-pandemic remote working solve our productivity challenge? - Book launch for The Nowhere Office by Julia Hobsbawm. (10 Mar 2022)
Report: Changing jobs? Change in the UK labour market and the role of worker mobility (6 Jan 2022)
Event: Changing jobs? How economic change affects the world of work (6 Jan 2022)

The State

Report: Under pressure: Managing fiscal pressures in the 2020s (10 Feb 2022)
Event: Fees-ible reforms? Assessing the Government’s new plan for higher education (9 Mar 2022)
Event: Pressure points: Why the state is getting bigger and what we do about it (10 Feb 2022)
Report: Social insecurity: Assessing trends in social security to prepare for the decade of change ahead (19 Jan 2022)
Event: Beyond Beveridge: Have social security shifts prepared us for economic change? (19 Jan 2022)

Coming up

Event: All change please?: What going for growth could mean for different places across Britain
Tuesday 7 June 2022 10:00 am to 11:00 am
 
Event: The Decisive Decade: how should the UK navigate the economic change of the 2020s?
Hosted by LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World?
Monday 13 June 2022 6:30pm to 7:45pm
 
The interim report of The Economy 2030 Inquiry
Full-day conference at the QEII Centre in Westminster, London. Confirmed speakers so far include: Financial Times journalist Martin Wolf, inquiry commissioners Frances O’Grady and Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, and LSE academics Swati Dhingra, Henry Overman and Anna Valero.
Wednesday 13 July 2022 9.30am to 4pm
Please contact tara.goatley@resolutionfoundation.org if you would like to attend.
 
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