It was fantastic having the brilliant Anna Valero on to talk about economic growth and how to get some. We talk planning, investment, housing, trade, and much more. Take a listen.

EXPLAINER: What is meant by economic growth?

For our latest podcast Anna Valero speaks to Paul Johnson to explain all you need to know about how to grow the economy #GeneralElection2024

🎧 Listen here: linktr.ee/ifszoomsin

Important piece from @theIFS colleagues laying out the tough options facing the next government given the fiscal context (weak expected growth, high expected debt interest payments)

High debt, high interest payments, low growth. The worst possible combination for a government wanting to get debt down, as both parties have promised. And we start with historically high taxes and creaking public services.

A dark cloud indeed.

NEW: The fiscal challenge awaiting the next government will hang over the election campaign like a dark cloud.

Read our first briefing of the #GeneralElection2024 campaign, by Paul Johnson, Ben Zaranko and Carl Emmerson: ifs.org.uk/articles/publi…

A pleasure to talk about growth with Paul Johnson

🎧NEW The Expert Factor: How can public inquiries make a difference?

Emma_Norris joins Anand Menon UK in a Changing Europe and Paul Johnson Institute for Fiscal Studies to examine what makes a successful public inquiry, as the final report of the Infected Blood Inquiry is published.

instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/how-ca…

📢Here are 10 key facts underling the major tax & public finance challenges future governments face

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NEW PODCAST: How to grow the economy

With an election on the way, economic growth is bound to be central to the campaigns. Paul Johnson is joined by leading expert Anna Valero who explains how we can grow the economy.

🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/how-g…

🗳️ During an election it can be difficult to understand what the parties are saying about spending, tax and the economy.

If you want to know what's really happening, head to our dedicated election website to get your questions answered: ifs.org.uk/election

Visit our Election 2024 website to find the latest #GeneralElection analysis, explainers, podcasts and data from the IFS here at: ifs.org.uk/election

If Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt are going to meet the fiscal target they are both agreed on - to get debt falling - then they will have to choose between spending cuts and tax increases. They should tell us what they intend to do.

As Paul Johnson sets out here, we're either going to see spending cuts or tax rises in the next parliament. We might see both. We won't see neither.

You can see the difficult challenges ahead by playing with our Be the Chancellor tool: ifs.org.uk/election-2024/…

'Either we’re actually going to see those cuts – if we are, it would be nice to hear from both parties where they are going to fall – or we’re going to see some tax rises to avoid the cuts.'

Paul Johnson on BBC Radio 4 Today on the choices that face the next government.

As parties gear up to tell the electorate their plans, here's a recap of 10 key tax & public finance challenges.

A good plan would tackle these head on.

With a general election confirmed, our interactive tax tool created by Institute for Fiscal Studies in partnership with Nesta is more relevant than ever.

Use it to set tax and spending for the next five years and see how choices affect the government balance sheet 👇 nesta.org.uk/data-visualisa…

UK-based economists working on the Economics of Crime and the justice system — GET IN TOUCH!

We want to invite you to events & workshops we organise as part of the new Institute for Fiscal Studies Nuffield Foundation Empirical Justice Agenda

Email/DM me or Joe Tomlinson or reply below!

As parties announce new NHS policy, we will be producing a range of responsive analysis.

Thanks to Nuffield Foundation and abrdn Financial Fairness Trust for funding much of this work.

You can read all of our Institute for Fiscal Studies election analysis here: ifs.org.uk/microsite/elec…
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The NHS will be a key battleground during the upcoming election. Ben Zaranko and I have you covered with Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis of the key policy issues.

Short 🧵on all of our pre-election analysis of the NHS in England.
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