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·Aug 5

Time for a macroeconomic reset as the UK economy hurtles towards stagflation

By Josh Ryan-Collins The Bank of England yesterday forecast the longest recession since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, lasting through the whole of 2023. This will involve unemployment rising from 3.8% to 5.5% and record falls in living standards, accompanied by double digit inflation for most of the period…

Macroeconomics

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Time for a macroeconomic reset as the UK economy hurtles towards stagflation

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·Jul 24

Is it time to rethink how we value arts and culture?

By Laurie Macfarlane This blog is a follow up to the event ‘Public Value of Art: Connecting value creation and culture’. The event is part of IIPP’s ‘Walking the talk: Getting serious about the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ series. The recording of the event will be published soon. The…

Economics

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Is it time to rethink how we value arts and culture?

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·Jul 22

Should HM Treasury be abolished?

By Craig Berry Before she was eliminated from the race, Kemi Badenoch produced one of the few substantive policy ideas — beyond the clamour to cut taxes — to emerge from the Conservative Party leadership contest. In short, Badenoch proposed breaking up Her Majesty’s Treasury. The Treasury has long doubled-up…

Economics

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·Jul 15

What the US Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA means for climate policy and innovation

By Damon Silvers A t the end of last month, in a decision no one found surprising, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not have the statutory authority to make rules that had “major” policy effects, and thus did not have the authority to…

Innovation

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·Jul 15

How can governments use procurement to create sustainable societies?

By Laurie Macfarlane This blog is a follow up to the event ‘Buying time: How can government shape markets for sustainable societies?’ The event is part of IIPP’s ‘Walking the talk: Getting serious about the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ series. The recording of the event can be viewed above. …

Innovation

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How can governments use procurement to create sustainable societies?

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·Jul 11

Barcelona’s housing mission: from a market-fixing to a market-shaping approach

By Eduardo González de Molina I n many major cities around the world the housing rental market is broken. Barcelona is a case in point: rent is skyrocketing, and is now at record levels when compared with wages. Meanwhile, affordable dwellings are not being delivered by the market at the…

Housing

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Jul 11

Barcelona’s housing mission: from a market-fixing to a market-shaping approach

Housing

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Published in IIPP Student Ideas

·Jul 5

A view from the top: does the UK government meaningfully support the SDGs?

By Abby Hauver Seven years ago the UK committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) along with all other 192 United Nations Member States. But what does this mean in practice? There are countless examples of actions happening around the country that aim at tackling the 17 SDGs —…

Sdgs

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·Jun 30

What is the role of industrial policy in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals?

By Laurie Macfarlane This blog is a follow up to the event ‘Industrial policy in action: What are the routes to sustainable prosperity?’ The event is part of IIPP’s ‘Walking the talk: Getting serious about the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ series. …

Economics

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What is the role of industrial policy in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals?

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·Jun 28

The true meaning of the Big Society

By Eliza Baring, IIPP MPA student A Big Society, or a small state? A vision for thriving communities, able to exercise countervailing power; or a thinly veiled attempt to cut public spending, shifting the burdens of the welfare state onto community and voluntary organisations? …

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