Category: Skills and the labour market
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: A national investment bank could support enterprise and be a path to more sustainable growth
by Justin Protts, Chief Economist at Civitas
Since the financial crisis, economic growth has mainly been driven by the combination of a larger workforce and greater consumer spending. This is unsustainable. For growth to be experienced by everyone and to be sustainable then each worker will need the ability to produce and earn more. [...]
Read moreBlog: What we’re reading: Tuesday 20th February
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
How to create good work and inclusive growth in a 21st century economy David Burch, Policy & Research at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) According to official government statistics, 2017 saw the British economy witness its highest period of employment since records began, [...]
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: UK recovery now worse than after Great Depression
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
The research confirmed that the path of the recession in 1929-31 followed a similar path to the crisis of 2008-09 but the recovery over the last ten years has been much slower. Ten years after the Wall Street financial crash, Britain had left the Gold Standard and, like today, pursued a policy [...]
Read moreBlog: The UK economy needs fundamental reform
by Michael Jacobs, Director of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice
Last week’s announcement by the Bank comes at a time when the UK’s growth forecasts are being downgraded and average real wages are falling. The MPC’s warning is solely a reflection of its mandate to control inflation: since the EU referendum vote, the depreciation of the pound has been pushing [...]
Read moreBlog: Why don’t we just… make sure economic growth benefits everyone?
by Jane Thomas, Member of Sheffield’s Our Fair City Advisory Group
In the recent Budget, the Chancellor acknowledged that too many families are still feeling the squeeze, almost a decade on from the financial crash. Theresa May and Philip Hammond have both promoted the goal of inclusive economic growth or an “economy that delivers for everyone” yet there is no [...]
Read moreBlog: Skilling up the regions: Unlocking the UK’s productivity potential
by Michael Kane, Senior Director at PwC
The current skills system is not delivering the skills that UK businesses or the economy needs. Skills shortages consistently top the list of concerns of business leaders in our annual Global CEO survey, while the lack of powers over skills is a concern for local leaders. This means a new model [...]
Read moreBlog: Social Policy: a vital partner in any inclusive growth strategy
by Hannah Lambie-Mumford, Research Fellow at Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI)
The inclusive growth agenda provides a unique opportunity to reconnect people with the economy and build a fairer, more equitable society. As we work towards this, however, social policy will necessarily need to play a central role; keeping focus on the needs and aspirations of all people, [...]
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