Tuesday 26 September 2023

Familiar challenges, new solutions?

This is a good summary of the economic performance and institutional challenges facing the UK: https://options2040.co.uk/economic-growth-and-the-productivity-puzzle-the-choices/

As someone who has been following the economic performance debate since the mid 1960s, it doesn't tell me much that is new, but that in a sense just reinforces the size of the challenge, particularly given the fiscal constraints.

Whilst the UK clearly needs a systematic industrial strategy rather than the ad hoc one we have at present, we need to learn from the policy mistakes of the past.

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