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Are we there yet?
The recent good news about renewed growth in the British economy badly needs to be scrutinised and put in context A strange story has started to emerge about the British economy. Apparently, it’s in...
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Counting the cost of the regressive recovery
The Coalition’s recovery has intensified deeply damaging distributional trends within Britain With GDP growth of 1.8 per cent in 2013, the growing consensus is that Britain’s long economic downturn has...
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The changing political economy of oil
The recent big fall in price creates some space for new thinking, but also poses questions to which we don’t have answers The price of oil has been falling. Last Friday the price of a barrel of Brent...
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The UK balance of payments: in the ‘Red Signal’ zone?
The current account has now deteriorated to levels often believed to be unsustainable without counteracting responses The most recent United Kingdom current account deficit figures have attracted...
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The rise and fall of the World Bank’s global pension model
The global economic crisis has prompted the rapid demise of a treasured neoliberal pet project In many ways neoliberalism still seems an unshakeable paradigm. However, in the pension reform arena...
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Bad things can still happen to ‘good pupils’ in the Eurozone
Portugal’s aspirant ‘good behaviour’ has contributed not only to its recent political crisis, but also its longstanding economic woes Portugal’s political elites, such as Luís Marques Guedes, are often...
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How sustainable are the Anglo-American recoveries?
While both countries have experienced comparatively strong growth, divergence on the current account ensures that the UK’s situation looks much more perilous Staggering global payments imbalances are a...
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Growing the economy from the middle out
A new growth model must place individual livelihoods at the heart of our regional economic strategy In his new SPERI paper Craig Berry suggests it is crucial to make a connection ‘between the new order...
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The hollowness of GDP: The case of Ireland
Ireland’s GDP statistics highlight the disconnect between ‘official’ growth and the real economy, and raise questions about the nature of growth itself In the last decade, the prominence afforded to...
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The political determinants of miracle growth in Rwanda
Rwanda’s government works hard to maintain a balancing act between the complex range of political and economic factors that underpin the country’s recent rapid economic growth To understand why growth...
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