All posts from: March 2019

The UK – an imbalanced economy

Posted by: Ben Gardiner
Publish date: 11th March, 2019 | 11:46am11/3/2019
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In the first of three blogs focusing on imbalance in the UK’s economy our Director, Ben Gardiner, takes a look at spatial imbalance and productivity.

We find that London pulls away from the other UK regions in terms of productivity and that the regional productivity divergen…

How we measure poverty matters

Posted by: Anthony Barker
Publish date: 4th March, 2019 | 11:49am4/3/2019
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Viewed over 20 years there’s been little sustained improvement in poverty rates in the UK. But, how should we measure being poverty, and does how we measure it make a material difference to who is seen as in poverty?

Anthony Barker looks at the new indicator developed by the…