Posted by: Dora Fazekas
Publish date: 29th May, 2019 | 4:20pm29/5/2019
In the past, the natural environment has not typically been a key public policy consideration.
However, with increased public pressure on politicians to address climate change and limit the impact of the human population on the natural environment, policymakers are seeking new…
Posted by: Hector Pollitt
Publish date: 2nd May, 2019 | 11:13am2/5/2019
A policy wish-list from our Director and Head of Modelling, Hector Pollitt, using insights from E3ME modelling (not yet published) in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Open University, Radboud University and others.
Getting us to net zero will not be possible wit…
Here Unnada Chewpreecha, explores why many studies overestimate the positive job impacts of the transition.
The complex interaction between sectors and regions and between different economic, environmental, material, energy and labour market indicators is often overlooked.
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Posted by: Chris Thoung
Publish date: 4th April, 2019 | 2:57pm4/4/2019
On Sunday, 7 April 2019 it is World Health Day. This year, as last year, the focus is on universal health coverage.
Despite health being long recognised as a human right, far too many people can’t access even the basic services they need. According to the World Health O…
Posted by: Hector Pollitt
Publish date: 1st April, 2019 | 1:13pm1/4/2019
In a previous blog post I wrote about how the positive impacts of trade may be exaggerated by standard models – and how the economic impacts of trade may not always be positive.
I noted that simulations with Cambridge Econometrics’ post-Keynesian E3ME model would not neces…
Posted by: Ben Gardiner
Publish date: 11th March, 2019 | 11:46am11/3/2019
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…
Posted by: Anthony Barker
Publish date: 4th March, 2019 | 11:49am4/3/2019
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…
Blog by Michael I. Westphal, Dora Fazekas and Leonardo Garrido originally posted on the World Resources Institute website here.
The world is vastly underestimating the benefits of acting on climate change. Recent research from the Global Commission on the Economy and Clim…
Posted by: Ben Gardiner
Publish date: 19th February, 2019 | 10:13am19/2/2019
Field research for a UNESCO project took our Director Ben Gardiner and Researcher Ana Rosa Gonzalez-Martinez* to the Dominican Republic, Cyprus and Senegal to assess the potential for a training levy to support vocational and technical education.
Tell us about the UNESCO proje…
Posted by: Lucy Clements
Publish date: 30th January, 2019 | 11:30am30/1/2019
Whilst the size of the gender pay gap in the UK has decreased over the last decade, it remains large and persistent. Here, economist Lucy Clements explores the factors that might explain this persistent aspect of gender inequality.
In 2017, hourly earnings for men in full-time…