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Ministry of Justice day-to-day spending fell 33% in real terms between 2007-08 and 2016-17, compared with a 3% reduction ...

Household consumption and saving depend on perceived income risk, yet macroeconomic models typically discipline income ...

Responding to today’s ONS figures on the public finances, Nick Ridpath, Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal ...

This paper studies the unanticipated removal of consumption taxes on selected food items in Papua New Guinea.

Applicants for disability benefits face a long wait for a decision, with uncertainty over how long the wait will last and ...

How does social care work, why has reform proved so difficult, and what would it take to build a fairer and more sustainable ...

State-dependent local projections (LPs) are widely used to study how causal effects vary as a function of economic states.

This report builds on a well-established IMF methodology to estimate the size and composition of Ghana’s VAT gap over the ...

How does social care work, why has reform proved so difficult, and what would it take to build a fairer and more sustainable system?