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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On average, London local authorities rank at the top of the income distribution, but are bottom of the net-of-housing consumption distribution. Londoners may have the highest average incomes, but ...

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 ...

This week, we’re looking at corporation tax, which was introduced 60 years ago. Across the decades there have been no shortage of predictions that corporate tax revenues will decline, and yet the tax ...

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 - ...

Total public spending in the UK stood at £1.1 trillion, or 40.6% of GDP, in 2023–24. Within this total, there are large regional differences in how much money the government spends, and in what it ...

One-quarter of married, fertile-age women in Sub-Saharan Africa report not wanting a pregnancy and yet do not practice contraception. We collect detailed data on the subjective beliefs of married, ...

The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) brings a research-led approach to measuring the economy. Established in 2017 with the support of the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), ESCoE ...