Reports

This transcript from UK think tank CLES looks at how community wealth building has advanced in the past decade. Over the course of the last decade, community wealth building has advanced, what was once a marginal sport is now a widely-adopted corrective to a failing economic model. To celebrate this flourishing movement, CLES has produced...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Development Studies provides an Emerging Evidence Report.  Children as young as seven years old are working in thousands of small businesses across Bangladesh’s leather sector, new research has found. Based on observations of over 150 children working 12-14 hour days, six days a week, it showed...

This briefing from UK think tank the Foreign Policy Centre looks at the Government's new strategic agenda for tackling conflict. Amid the (warranted) controversy over UK aid cuts and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, little attention has been paid to the Government’s quiet development of a new strategic agenda for tackling conflict. This is a big...

This report from UK think tank the Education Policy Institute looks at giving teachers a formal entitlement to high-quality training and development. This report, commissioned by Wellcome, finds that giving teachers a formal entitlement to high-quality training and development would only cost the government an extra £210m in funding a year. When added to existing...

This report from UK think tank IPPR is the final report of the Environmental Justice Commission. The Environmental Justice Commission was established in May 2019 in recognition that action to address the accelerating climate and nature emergencies can be about more than staving off the worst; it can be about imagining a better world which...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at whether the world worked together to tackle the coronavirus. It has frequently been stated during the COVID-19 pandemic that ‘no one is safe until we are all safe’. This is most commonly talked of between nations, but, importantly, it also applies within countries. Besides the...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government assesses the Commission for Smart Government’s ‘four steps’ for reform. The Commission for Smart Government is right to say in its report on ‘smarter government’* that this is an important moment for government renewal. Change often comes after moments of trauma. Wars and crises have...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at the shortfalls in NATO's current air and missile defence system in light of future plans. This Occasional Paper aims to contribute to the nascent discussion on NATO’s future air and missile defence system by discussing the shortfalls in its current approach, and identifies the key lines...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at whether the EU can continue to balance its relationships with China and the US. In recent years, the EU’s approach to China has mainly focused on economic factors and the interests of a few member states. However, internal and external political tensions – as well...

This report from UK think tank the Education Policy Institute looks at the educational outcomes of pupils in England, Scotland, Wales and NI since devolution. This report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, provides new insights into the educational outcomes of pupils in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since devolution. The study, which draws on...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies looks at how household incomes were changing in the UK up to the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report examines how household incomes were changing in the UK up to the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how other measures of household living...

This report from UK think tank CLES is the final report of the Liverpool City Region Land Commission. Our land, the final report of the Liverpool City Region Land Commission, reflects the findings of England’s first Commission to review the use of land for community wealth building. The Liverpool City Region Land Commission was launched...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at an overhaul of the rules governing ministerial standards of behaviour. The ministerial code is not working, is being undermined by the prime minister and requires urgent reform. This report argues that Boris Johnson should fundamentally overhaul the rules which govern the standards of...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the challenge of dismantling ‘systema’. Ukraine’s system of crony capitalism – described in this paper as systema – reflects the absence of a strong state, and an enduring relationship between big business and the country’s political class that puts their own interests before those of...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at how to improve the accountability, transparency and effectiveness of the CMA. Two thirds of businesses do not know that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) enforces competition law in the UK and two fifths have never heard of it, prejudicing the deterrence...

This report from UK think tank EDSK looks at the various arguments on 'low value' Higher Education. The debate over ‘low value’ Higher Education has reached a stalemate as politicians, policymakers, university leaders and students seem unable to agree on which degrees and institutions should be labelled as ‘low value’. This report explores the merits...

This report from UK think tank Centre for European Reform looks at how Europe and the UK can work together in foreign policy. Since Brexit, the UK has been reluctant to engage with the EU in foreign and security policy. The EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement of December 2020 does not cover provisions for working...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how Hezbollah's hybrid status means power without responsibility. As a hybrid actor, Hezbollah has risen to become the most influential political organization in Lebanon. It enjoys legitimacy within the Lebanese state, but is able to operate without the accountability required of a state institution and...

This report from UK think tank the IFS looks at the complexities involved in understanding ethnic inequalities. Today’s second-generation ethnic minority adults, who were born and brought up in the UK, did much better in the education system than the white majority despite much less advantaged economic backgrounds. This was true, though differentially so, for...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the implications of the end of the EU settlement scheme. In his first speech as prime minister, Boris Johnson pledged to EU citizens living in the UK that under his government "you will get the absolute certainty of the rights to live and remain" as the...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at the generous EU Settlement Scheme. The terms of the EU Settlement Scheme are very generous in giving EU citizens the right to stay in the UK permanently, both absolutely and in comparison with the EU freedom of movement regime. However, those EU citizens...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the near collapse of the state in Lebanon due to corruption. Lebanon is facing an unprecedented socio-economic crisis. Since the end of the civil war, corruption within the political elites – which have used the state as a vehicle for self-enrichment and patronage-distribution – has...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at building the low carbon workforce of the future. The Government has committed to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. This will require a transformative shift in our economy, with significant impacts on the make-up and viability of specific sectors, the jobs...

This report from UK think tank IISS provides a net assessment of cyber capabilities and national power. The result of two years of study by IISS researchers, this report provides a major new qualitative assessment of 15 countries’ cyber power, as well as a new qualitative framework for understanding how to rank global state cyber...

This report from UK think tank RUSI looks at whether cyber insurance can incentivise better cyber security practices among policyholders. This paper explores whether cyber insurance can incentivise better cyber security practices among policyholders. It finds that the shortcomings of cyber insurance mean that its contribution to improving cyber security practices is more limited than...