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Richard Layard writes that Labour must apply the wellbeing-to-cost test to every departmental proposal in the spending review. ... Read more...
03 September 2024
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...
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...
A lot of my time at work is given over to worrying fitfully about two things. One is cities policy. The other is Brexit. What could be more thrilling, then, than a report which combines those two topics into a ... Read more...
07 August 2017
Britain’s most successful cities with large high-skilled service sectors will be hit hardest by the expected downturn in trade after the UK leaves the EU. Sadly, that means bad news for Aberdeen. A repor... Read more...
04 August 2017
BREXIT will damage the economic performance of Taunton Deane, according to new report. The Centre for Economic Performance believes the economy in the district will take a 1.2 per cent hit under a sort Br... Read more...
03 August 2017
Snippet: ... Reading has come out third on a list of 10 towns in the UK most likely to be hit hardest by Brexit report of the London School of Economics says Dorsey a fall i... Related publications &lsqu... Read more...
02 August 2017
…Centre for Cities and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London… Related publications ‘Brexit, Trade and the Economic Impacts on UK Cities’, Naomi Clayton and Hen... Read more...
29 July 2017
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27 July 2017
Article by Sandra McNally and Stephen Gorard. The level of funding going into schools is at record levels. Prime Minister Theresa May in an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC on April 30, 2017. As she hit t... Read more...
04 May 2017
17:20:17 Professor Martin Knapp comments on money for social care in the budget Also on: BBC Wiltshire ... Read more...
09 March 2017
19:00:01 Snippet: ...Martin Knapp discusses the Chancellor’s plans to put an extra £2 billion towards England’s social care systems. Click to open Also on BBC Radio 4, BBC Foyle, BBC... Read more...
08 March 2017
Trails for the Chancellor’s budget speech on Wednesday promise big new plans for technical education in England. Professor Sandra McNally of the Centre for Vocational Education Research (C... Read more...
06 March 2017
So we've decided to take a leap and vote to leave the EU. What is it going to mean for you and your money? We've voted. The decision has been made. We're out of the European Union, in a move that has triggered the Pri... Read more...
24 June 2016
The Centre for Economic Performance estimates that Brexit would reduce UK gross domestic product (GDP) by up to 3.1%. However, this doesn't factor in losses associated with lower foreign direct investment (FDI), fewer sk... Read more...
26 March 2016
''The fiscal target should be on balancing the books on current spending over the business cycle - just as it was when the Office for Budget Responsibility was first set up in 2010. Otherwise there will always be too mu... Read more...
17 March 2016
John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, gives his reaction to the 2016 Budget. The austerity approach continues, despite it having little economic sense. Fuel duty is frozen as a sweetener to hi... Read more...
16 March 2016
A large body of empirical evidence suggests either that reasonable minimum wages do not destroy jobs at all, or that they do not destroy very many. The evidence is, of course, mixed and contested. Much of it comes from t... Read more...
10 July 2015
Article by John Van Reenen The most eye-catching announcement in today's budget was the National Living Wage. Now, this might be nothing more than a big hike in the minimum wage, but such increases can be beneficial. ... Read more...
09 July 2015
Article by John Van Reenen Yesterday, George Osborne delivered the new government's first budget in which he surprised many by hiking the minimum wage significantly. John Van Reenen reviews the measures introduced, wr... Read more...
The story of the first coalition government in Britain since the second world war is the story of austerity and thwarted deficit reduction plans. It is the story of a delayed economic recovery. It is the story of falling... Read more...
15 March 2015
Blog article posted by John Van Reenen George Osborne's Autumn Statement was a reminder of the government's missed targets and missed opportunities, writes John Van Reenen. The Chancellor's promise to eliminate the stru... Read more...
03 December 2014
Another 1m public sector jobs are expected to be lost over the next five years as part of the latest squeeze on the public finances. ... Adjusted for inflation, wages have fallen by about a 10th since the financial crisi... Read more...
Reflecting on yesterday's budget, John Van Reenen argues that an opportunity was missed. While there were good things in the budget, the 1p off a pint of beer was symbolic. This was a budget in which little changed and... Read more...
21 March 2013
These phenomena have helped to change the pattern of inequality since the turn of the century, says Steve Machin, research director at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. During the 1980s and... Read more...
20 March 2013
Budget 2013: Economists pass judgment CEP's Director of Research, Professor Stephen Machin, gives his views on the chancellor's 2013 budget... "The chancellor pitched the Budget as one for hard-working people w... Read more...
Professor John Van Reenen interviewed by the BBC on the eve of the next Budget announcement by George Osborne. The interview was broadcast by the BBC Business News site on March 19, 2013 Link to interview here Rel... Read more...
19 March 2013
In advance of Budget Day John Van Reenen highlights a range of chronic weaknesses which are holding back the UK economy, with infrastructure and associated policy uncertainty a particular problem. He calls for a new arch... Read more...
18 March 2013
"It's like one of those horror movies - you think the recession is dead, and then it pops up again." John Van Reenen is feeling frustrated. The head of the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance believes his voice is jus... Read more...
The Chancellor delivered his third budget yesterday. CEP Director Professor John Van Reenen gives his initial reaction. There were some positive steps such as the extension of personal allowances, but the Budget had a... Read more...
22 March 2012