This report from UK think tank Pro Bono Economics makes the case for universal wellbeing measurement. A large coalition of children’s charities, teachers, and parents are calling for the UK government to urgently address the deepening children’s wellbeing crisis by introducing universal wellbeing measurement across England. 25 of the UK’s leading organisations across youth, education...

This report from UK think tank City-REDI seeks to provide local governments with the evidence to make better policy decisions. There is increasing concern about the financial viability of some local authorities with estimates by the Local Government Association (LGA) suggesting that councils in England are facing a funding gap of £4 billion. Councils have...

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation explores some of the tax policy choices that may face the new Chancellor. Ahead of Autumn Budget 2024, this report explores some of the tax policy choices that may face the new Chancellor, and sets out what reforms could best raise revenue while also improving the...

This report from UK think tank IIED offers a comprehensive step-by-step guide to quantifying and valuing economic and non-economic loss and damage. Across the world, climate impacts such as extreme heat and floods are destroying lives, livestock and property. Loss and damage occurs when the capacities of affected communities and countries are compromised to the...

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation examines the Government’s proposed employment reforms. The Government is planning the largest set of workplace reforms in a generation, with plans to overhaul multiple areas of employment policy. These have the potential to make real inroads in the problem of insecurity at work, and would particularly...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at tuition tensions between labour markets and education taxes. Author Maxwell Marlow has looked at the evidence on what happens when people experience a similar wealth gain, for example when they inherit money, or win the lottery. This backs up the ASI’s concern that...

This report from UK think tank The David Hume Institute looks at the economic outlook for Scots. Our independent quarterly tracker has revealed that one in three (36%) people living in Scotland consider the cost of living as one of their top concerns, down 12 percentage points year on this time last year. According to...

This report from UK think tank Pro Bono Economics looks at the potential of better philanthropy advice. Tens of thousands of charities, and an even greater number of community groups and social enterprises, have spent decades dedicated to getting people into good work, providing opportunities to young people, reducing crime, improving health, and saving the...

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation provides an assessment of incomes, poverty and inequality as things stand in 2024-25. This is our sixth annual Living Standards Outlook. It provides an assessment of incomes, poverty and inequality as things stand in 2024-25, and projections up to 2029-30 using economic forecasts and policy assumptions...

This report from UK think tank Pro Bono Economics looks at the charity sector's unhealthy status quo. Recent riots have put the instability of the UK’s communities in the spotlight. And as night follows day, they have also highlighted the communities’ strengths: the people who freely give their time and money to respond to need,...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs looks at foreign aid spending in regions that are richer than parts of the UK. UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending has gone to regions of upper-middle-income countries with GDP per capita figures equal to or in excess of those reported in large parts...

This report from UK think tank The David Hulme Institute examines the impact of the great risk transfer on individuals and society through the changing relationship between employer and employees. This latest research which investigates the Great Risk Transfer and the changed relationship between employment and financial wellbeing, published in partnership with the Institute and...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs looks at whether rent control works. Rent controls have well-intentioned goals, including reducing rental burdens and ensuring access to affordable housing. But these regulations can generate unintended consequences, stifling housing supply, reducing labour mobility, and driving up rents in unregulated dwellings. Market distortions caused...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at market-based reforms to the UK's economic sanctions regime. The UK’s current sanctions regime is dysfunctional, as exemplified by the failure to place meaningful pressure on Russia to abandon its invasion of Ukraine. The intent of these sanctions was to damage the Russian economy...

This report from UK think tank the NIESR recommends targeted public investment projects in key areas such as housing, transport connectivity, education and skills. Analysis of the UK finds that, over the last five years, the gap in living standards between the prosperous parts of the United Kingdom and poorer areas has widened, and productivity...