An assigned share of tax revenues will mean local areas share more in the rewards of growth – but also brings risks.

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The goal is to tailor these to the needs of local industries and to combine skills training with practical work experience.

Challenging Inequalities, written by seven of the world's foremost economists and social scientists including ex IFS Director ...

Business rates have gone from being one of the most stable and simple taxes in the system to one of the least.

This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on delaying children’s smartphone ownership through a community-led ...

As a result of the VAT cut announced today, households will benefit from small cuts to their electricity bills. But the ...

New ONS data show that higher-than-expected inflation pushed up government spending more than revenues between April and June ...

In a turbulent world, effective policy requires granular estimates of firm responses to shocks as they unfold.

Burnham has spoken of creating a new politics in which government levels with the public about difficult decisions. That ...

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Max Warner, a Senior Research Economist at IFS, said: “Today, the government published the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan (DIP). As part of delivering the plan, it announced an average of £3.8 ...