Growth
Britain is bottom of the G7’s growth table
Britain is bottom of the G7's growth league table. Excluding earthquake-hit Japan, Britain is growing more slowly than every other major developed economy.
Huge demand for Regional Growth Fund shows desperate need for business credit
The goverrnment's axing of Regional Development Agencies have left a huge gap in support for local businesses - as seen by the huge demand for the Regional Growth Fund, which is around a third of the size of the RDAs
Economic Update – August 2011
A round-up of all the key indicators from IPPR senior economist Tony Dolphin
Coalition’s flagship growth policy is “total flop”
Figures released today show that the Coalition's flagship NICs holiday policy has flopped. It has helped just 5,000 businesses rather than the 400,000 originally suggested.
Enterprise Zones are the dusting down of a failed Thatcherite policy
Enterprise Zones, the dusting down of a failed Thatcherite policy, shows the government has no strategy for real growth, just ad hoc short termism.
Has the coalition lost the plot on growth?
Following the depressing growth figures, coalition big wigs have been keen to offer their hapoth's worth to George Osborne with a series of bizarre ideas.