Inequality in the UK is overwhelmingly *within* generations, not between them. .

Not about old vs young/'privileged boomers', but income and wealth inequality.

(As I've been saying for last decade..)

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There are three key challenges that the UK needs to tackle to boost productivity growth: underinvestment, knowledge diffusion and institutional fragmentation.
These factors are identified in the #productivity agenda : productivity.ac.uk/research/the-p…
Economic and Social Research Council #productivity #growth

Great graphic here

6/ Inward accountability also depends on executive arrangements.

Attempts to roll-out the 'Manchester model' have not properly taken into account the different political and geographic contexts accross the country.

This has weakened inward accountability in some areas.

🚨NEW REPORT🚨

Rebuilding Local Democracy:
The accountability challenge in English devolution

bit.ly/49TrVt4

The Productivity Institute Sam Warner Michael Kenny Andy Westwood Jennifer Williams

How to shift from top-down to bottom-up accountability in England.

🧵Key findings

Only just saw this fantastic, explains-so-much chart from the CEPR, found via the Balls et al paper on regional inequality cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Anyways, here's a graph. ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-…

Join us 27 February when Ed Balls will launch a Harvard-King's paper: 'A Growth Policy to Close Britain’s Regional Divides – What Needs to be Done?' with a panel of Michael Gove Sir John Kingman Alison McGovern Tom Riordan Rachel Wolf

thestrandgroup.kcl.ac.uk/event/a-growth…

New study shows people in just this small part of Notting Hill received as much in capital gains as everyone in Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle combined. Our tax system is ridiculous.

theguardian.com/money/2024/feb…