We are pleased to announce the 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference, taking place in London, UK, on ...

On April 15, 1975, Denis Healey, the Labour chancellor, presented his budget. An economic crisis was upon us. Inflation was ...

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain. We use small-area estimation methods that combine information from a household ...

If you measure living standards by looking at how much people spend on goods and services (excluding housing-related expenditures and adjusting for household size) you get a starkly different picture ...

Measuring living standards using average household spending gives a starkly different picture of regional inequalities than using average income.

Living standards across areas can be measured in many ways. Common approaches are to look at differences in local productivity (which reflect differences in the earnings of those working, but not ...

Corporation tax was introduced 60 years ago. Despite many predictions of its decline, it is now forecast to raise record ...

The government spent around £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of national income, on our behalf in 2023-24. This was composed of different categories of spending - e.g. health, education, and benefit spending - ...