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A memo to Ed Davey from IPPR
Article
The deputy prime minister has singled out your ability to get on top of policy detail and your command of your brief as the reason you are right to replace Chris Huhne as energy and climate change...
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03 Feb 2012
03 Feb 2012
Miliband: British Investment Bank could provide government banking for entrepreneurs when market fails
Article
Ed Miliband’s speech this morning will be overshadowed by the events surrounding Chris Huhne and any coverage that he does get will focus on his banker bashing. But the more interesting section of...
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03 Feb 2012
03 Feb 2012
Launching the third wave: Memo from Davos, February 2012
Publication
Will Straw summarises the discussion and debate that unfolded at the high-level breakfast event held at the World Economic Forum in Davos to launch The third wave of globalisation, IPPR's major new...
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03 Feb 2012
03 Feb 2012
Small businesses can play a vital role – but only if they get the finance they need
Article
Growth in the UK economy in the decade up to the financial crisis and recession was dominated by large companies and institutions. In the private sector, big banks grew rapidly and major food...
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
Working Party on the Future of Small Grants and Micro-Finance
Project Current
Small voluntary and community sector organisations are the life blood of a thriving civil society. Their work in advocacy, campaigning and service delivery helps to weave the social fabric of our...
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
Innovation Learning Exchanges
Project Current
IPPR North is developing a programme of international learning as part of NESTA’s Creative Councils programme which is offering support to councils to develop and implement radical innovations that...
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
Borderland: Economic opportunities and challenges for the North of England resulting from Scotland’s changing relationship with the Union
Project Current
This project will explore the economic relationship between the North of England and Scotland, against the backdrop of Scotland’s changing relationship with the Union. It will consider the...
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
Ideas on the 3rd Floor: Mayoral Referendum Debate: do our cities need their own Boris?
Event
IPPR North will host this important and timely debate between high profile advocates for and against city mayors ahead of the May referendum....
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
Conservatives put politics before policy on immigration
Article
The last Labour government was accused of not giving enough speeches on immigration. Personally, I doubt that was its real problem; but the present government have clearly decided they won't make...
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
The ‘democratic deficit’ and reform of the EU’s machinery
Event
The next event in our series of high-level seminars exploring what the future holds for the European project, and Britain’s engagement within it, in light of the ongoing economic and political...
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
Beyond the credit boom: Why investing in smaller companies is not only responsible capitalism but better for investors too
Publication
Fund director Gervais Williams argues that it is the very smallness of small businesses that make them both attractive targets for investors and ripe opportunities for economic growth....
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
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02 Feb 2012
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02 Feb 2012
Small companies key to recovery
Press release
Credit-fuelled asset markets have encouraged greater speculation, displacing more traditional long-term investment strategies
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02 Feb 2012
02 Feb 2012
Pressures and priorities
Project Current
IPPR is embarking on a major new project investigating the implications of demographic change, technological improvements and behavioural change on the public finances over the long term. We will...
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01 Feb 2012
01 Feb 2012
The MoD wastes another opportunity
Article
Today’s White Paper on defence procurement makes disappointing reading for the UK defence industry — and for anyone who believes that one of the lessons of the last few years is that we need a...
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01 Feb 2012
01 Feb 2012
Why has the coalition delayed its aid bill?
Article
On page 18 of the Sun today, Political Editor Tom Newton Dunn, exclusively reveals that legislation to ensure Britain meets the UN goal of 0.7 per cent spending on international aid will be delayed....
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01 Feb 2012
01 Feb 2012
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01 Feb 2012
01 Feb 2012
Defence White Paper misses chance to support industries to drive growth
Press release
MoD White Paper makes disappointing reading...
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01 Feb 2012
01 Feb 2012
Today's NATO leak highlights the need for more realism over Afghanistan
Article
Today’s leaked NATO report on ‘the state of the Taliban’ has generated the predictable responses: excessive attempts by the media to hype it up, and excessive attempts by NATO and the Pakistani...
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01 Feb 2012
01 Feb 2012
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