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Analysis: How can we grow the UK economy?

How can we grow the UK economy?

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Is there anything governments can do to get the economy growing again?

After years of poor performance, Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies asks what can any government do to get the economy growing, and make us all better off?

The cost of living crisis followed a decade in which people’s wages and incomes barely grew. The idea that each generation does at least as well as the one before, has for the moment ended. We’ll only start getting better off again if we can get the economy growing – as it used to in the decades preceding the financial crisis. So, what levers can governments pull to get growth back into the system?  Why don't governments do the things that nearly every expert thinks might work? Should we be looking to governments at all? Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies explores the challenges facing the UK economy and asks: how can any government get the UK economy growing?
 
 
Presenter: Paul Johnson
Producer: Farhana Haider
Editor: Claire Fordham

 
Contributors:
Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. 
Jagjit Chadha, Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research 
Stephen Evans, Chief Executive of the Learning and Work Institute
Richard Davies, Director of the Economics Observatory
Louise Hellem, Chief economist at the CBI.
Nicholas Macpherson, former Permanent Secretary at the Treasury.
Rowan Crozier, CEO C. Brandauer & Co Ltd
Sam Bowan, Editor of Works in Progress

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