Achieving Good Growth Hub
This hub showcases research and insights from the social sciences to offer informed perspectives on how the UK might best address its challenges around growth and productivity – but also how this should be balanced against other competing policy priorities.
Since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, the UK’s economic growth has been slow, with the nation languishing in the lower half of the OECD rankings on productivity. The UK also has high levels of inequality in terms of wealth, income and opportunity when compared to its OECD peers. These challenges are in many ways linked, but tackling them is no straightforward task.
So, what sort of growth might we want in the UK – and where, how, and for whom? Are there ways that the UK can achieve growth that is fair, inclusive, carefully targeted, and environmentally sustainable? This hub foregrounds research-based ideas on how the UK might achieve ‘good growth’.
Taking "mission-oriented" growth seriously: advice for the UK Government
How to address inequalities as part of ‘good growth’
Crafting an economy that works for everyone
Comment and analysis
Evidence-based commentary from leading social scientists offering perspectives and evidence-based ideas on how the UK might achieve good growth.
