Category: Industrial strategy
Blog: Power to Change Capitalism for Good: The IPPR’s Economic Justice Commission
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Thank you Mr Speaker It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I beg to move the motion in my name and I hope you will forgive me the beginning with a short hymn of praise to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was at his behest that I and others founded the All-Party Parliamentary […]
Read moreBlog: Rolling back the state will never deliver equality
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
How do we mend capitalism and end populism? The populism that is fuelled by surging inequality around the world? After two years of hard graft, the IPPR has answers. Today, its commission on economic justice, whose members include the Archbishop of Canterbury, has produced its final report. It [...]
Read moreBlog: Inclusive Job Growth: Companies, Sectors and Places
by Mark Hepworth, Co-Founder and Director of Research and Policy, The Good Economy
The Good Economy co-founder, Mark Hepworth, shares new ratings of regions and sectors to see where inclusive growth is needed most.
Read moreBlog: Inclusive growth through unlocking the potential of offenders
In November 2017, the UK government published its industrial strategy white paper. This sets out how businesses will be supported to grow the economy in the future. Also in 2017, the Parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee published its fifth report, Support for ex-offenders. While at first [...]
Read moreBlog: We must build on our competitive regional advantages
by Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands
Building on the strengths of the West Midlands “We are enjoying something of a revival in the West Midlands. The stats for the last 3 years show that productivity in the West Midlands – measured by GVA per head – has increased by 6.8%, nearly three times higher than the national average which [...]
Read moreBlog: How the new industrial strategy can support left behind places
by Kate Barker, Chair of the Industrial Strategy Commission
Industrial strategy needs strong independent scrutiny “You can discern strands in today’s industrial strategy that have carried on from previous governments, but nonetheless there is still a sense that new ministers have a terrible tendency to bring to a premature end the things that previous [...]
Read moreBlog: The industrial strategy must focus on the adoption of technology
by Juergen Maier, Chief Executive of Siemens UK
“What do we need to do to create more inclusive growth? Fundamentally we need to raise wages. Then through the application of new technology – you can call it the 4th Industrial Revolution or apply other labels – can we raise productivity to support rising wages, and can we create more jobs [...]
Read moreBlog: Britain has had a sustained industrial strategy now for almost a decade
by Lord Willetts, Executive Chair of the Resolution Foundation
“We are told that the problem with industrial strategy is that it’s always chopping and changing. There have been interruptions – there was one for a few months after the Conservative government took office in 2015 where some progress was lost, but it is absolutely back on track with Greg [...]
Read moreBlog: Don’t depoliticise inclusive growth!
by Tony Payne, Professorial Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research institute (SPERI)
That was the conclusion – both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time – that I drew at the end of a very interesting day spent in Glasgow two or three weeks ago as a delegate at what was described, with genuine national pride, as ‘Scotland’s Inclusive Growth Conference’. It was highly [...]
Read moreBlog: Inclusive growth at city-region level: a perspective from Greater Manchester
by Ruth Lupton, Professor of Education at the University of Manchester
Over the last year, The Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit (IGAU) have set out both to advocate for inclusive growth and to provide a research resource to help city leaders and other stakeholders know what to do and to understand the effects of different approaches. Guided by a multi-stakeholder [...]
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