Reports

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government is a response to the government's proposed rail reforms. The government’s proposed rail reforms lack sufficient detail to guarantee success. This paper is a response to the government’s white paper. The Plan for Rail announced the formation of Great British Railways (GBR), a new arm’s-length...

This report from UK think tank the IIED looks at transformative urban recovery in the global South. COVID-19 has created a critical juncture in the evolution of cities, but there has been limited focus on its urban dimensions in the global South. Drawing on the experiences of grassroots organisations, international agencies and other key urban...

This report from UK think tank the IIED provides a guide for negotiators. The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will be a major milestone in global agreements on biodiversity conservation, setting international ambition for the next decade. This guide seeks to support Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) who wish to strengthen the...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Progressive Policy looks at women's participation in the labour market. Over the coming months, CPP will launch a series of research reports examining the policies required to close the participation and pay gap between women and men with accessible and affordable childcare being a core focus...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at hybrid working and whether policies have kept pace with supporting the new ways of working. Hybrid working is here to stay. But have organisational policies and management practices kept pace to support new ways of working? Without addressing policy-to-practice gaps, organisational culture, and the...

This report from UK think tank IIED looks at a sustainable route out of the debt crisis for low-income countries. The public debt of low-income countries is increasing significantly, with the ratio of public debt service costs to government tax revenue likely to exceed 30% in a third of low-income countries. This could reduce their...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at The UK has positioned itself post-Brexit as a champion of both free trade and environmental protection. This major new Centre for Policy Studies paper argues that these goals can and should be mutually reinforcing - that the UK should use its post-Brexit...

This report from UK think tank British Future and the Centre for English Identity & Politics looks at why it’s time for an inclusive England outside the stadium. New research from British Future and the Centre for English Identity and Politics examines English identity, race and football today. The research examines: Do symbols of English...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a trade partnership grounded in supporting climate action, tackling economic inequalities and human rights. The contemporary model of international trade is under strain. Rising trade tensions, paralysis at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and economic instability as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic have led to...

This report from UK think tank IIED provides a guide of negotiators. The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will be a major milestone in global agreements on biodiversity conservation, setting international ambition for the next decade. This guide seeks to support Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) who wish to see strengthened provisions...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at why communities matter and what matters to them. Despite the many challenges it has brought, the COVID-19 pandemic has renewed interest in local community life in the UK. At a time when many are asking how we can build upon this community...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at the support for a United Kingdom-Australia free trade deal. Original ASI & C|T Group polling shows that the citizens of the United Kingdom and Australia greatly support the signing of a free trade deal between the UK and Australia. 65% of Brits support...

This report from UK think tank Centre for Policy Studies looks at how children can catch up after Covid. New polling by Public First for the Centre for Policy Studies think tank shows that over two thirds (67%) of parents think children in England have been negatively affected by lockdown. A follow-up poll found that...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House provides a network analysis of Haftar’s military alliance. In recent years, the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), under the command of Khalifa Haftar, has dominated authorities in eastern Libya, expanded into southern Libya and sought to capture the capital, Tripoli. Unlike other armed groups, the LAAF has...

This article by UK think tank the Foreign Policy Centre looks at the potential for, and importance of, long awaited defamation reform in Northern Ireland. Dr Mark Hanna, Lecturer at the QUB School of Law, discusses the potential for, and importance of, long awaited defamation reform in Northern Ireland. On 14 May 2021, the UK...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government provides details on 10 essential reforms to government. In his seven hours of testimony to a Commons committee, the prime minister’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, laid out a portrait of a chaotic government failing in its basic functions. Some of that is due to...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at why the UK should seize the opportunity to support a global minimum corporation tax. Since taking office, US President Joe Biden has put forward a bold plan for international cooperation to stop tax avoidance by multinational companies. This briefing paper argues that the UK should support...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at managing divergence from EU rules. This report warns that an incoherent government approach to the UK’s post-Brexit regulatory freedoms risks creating new costs for businesses, harming its international trade ambitions and destabilising the union. There are good reasons why the government might want...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a plan for culture change and regulatory reform. The audit industry is often seen as a not very exciting area. Auditors, sometimes referred to as ‘bean counters’, are seen as simply double-checking numbers with little room for judgement. As we showed in our last report, this...

This report from UK think tank looks at optimising special forces for future conflict. This Whitehall Report analyses the ways in which special forces have been used historically and how adversaries are increasingly likely to use them. It assesses how the future operating environment is likely to change the way in which special forces pursue...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at replacing EU state aid rules in the UK. As the government prepares to unveil legislation for a UK state aid (or subsidy control) regime – which will regulate around £8bn of subsidies from governments and public bodies to businesses each year – this...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at the ideas behind what we call ‘hate crime’ as well as the evidence for it.  Politicians, activists, celebrities and senior police officers appear united in their highlighting of apparent surges in hate crimes in recent years. But this report by the Director of the Statistics and...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the rise of working poverty and fixing Britain's broken social settlement. In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of this century. Our welfare...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at why stronger human rights monitoring is needed and how to make it work. Political shifts, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the struggle for a shared vision of how to ‘build back better’, have reignited the debate about trade and human rights. Although many...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the prospects for change in the post-Merkel era. This briefing paper tracks the evolution of Germany’s policy towards China in recent decades, founded on what was long viewed as a one-way economic bet for German business, and examines the drivers of a gradual shift in...