ippr has examined how 58 low-income families manage their day-to-day finances. The innovative research, which took place in London, Newcastle, Nottingham and Glasgow in 2008-2009, has provided...
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The financial crisis and recession have highlighted the unsustainable nature of the economic growth that went before. While there is much discussion around the recession, global capitalism and what...
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The Child Trust Fund is the world's first universal children's savings policy and many countries are keen to follow the UK's lead. This paper, co-authored with the US thinktank the Aspen Institute,...
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Different national, regional and local processes can lead to income segregation at the neighbourhood level. Policy and economic drivers interact with the processes of income segregation at different...
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IFS and other policy advocates have proposed a child savings account policy for the US, following the lead of the U.K. The IFS proposal replicates the UK model but with the additional feature of...
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This paper considers the notion of 'the rural economy' before going on to discuss the ways that rural areas feature within spatial policy and economic development in the UK This paper considers the...
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This paper explores the Government's developing strategy for the Structural Funds, and argues that European assistance should continue to be focused outside London and the South East. This paper...
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Mike Dixon and Julia Margo argue that we should act now to safeguard Britain's demographic future or risk rising levels of inequality and poverty and damage to the economy. In Britain, the phrase...
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This document forms the ippr response to the Treasury's consultations on additional payments to Child Trust Funds. This document forms the ippr response to the Treasury's consultations on additional...
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Social Justice brings together ippr's unrivalled team of policy analysts with leading thinkers like Geoff Mulgan, Raymond Plant, David Miller and Tania Burchardt, and asks them: "What can the...
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