Scotland increasingly relies on implicit fiscal transfers from the rest of the UK – but this is also true of the North, ...

This report provides a detailed analysis of Ethiopia’s tax-to-GDP ratio potential and the factors behind Ethiopia’s low ...

An expansion of discounter retailers coincided with declining retail and manufacturer concentration across most narrowly ...

We explore the evidence on early years policy and assess the government's Opportunity Mission, which aims to give every child ...

To accompany our podcasts, we provide a set of questions designed for A-level (or equivalent) economics teachers and students.

We study how couples in the Medicare Part D program choose an insurance plan. Over seventy percent of enrollees choose the same plan as their spouse.

With the Pensions Commission launched this week, this article outlines three focus areas from the IFS's Pension Review ...

Increases in taxes and borrowing are not costless and the spending plans after 2025-26 are unlikely to survive contact with reality.

The number of people waiting for NHS treatment in England has risen rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic, with 7.2 million incomplete treatment pathways in December 2022. The graph below shows the ...

Since the new government took office, there has been significant focus on the spending pressures facing departments in the current financial year, 2024–25. According to the Treasury, these pressures ...

Labour have promised £28 billion of green investment per year by the second half of the next parliament. £20 billion of this would be ‘additional’.