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I’ve written a few sceptical posts here over the years about the annual (or so) Technology Investment Network’s (TIN) boosterish reports on the New Zealand tech sector. The overall story was just even close to as upbeat as the reports liked to make out. Yesterday a link to a new TIN report turned up in … Continue reading The manufacturing sector

Recent government efforts towards improving public sector productivity, including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget 'public sector productivity drive', are marked by a focus on cost-efficiency, missing an opportunity to introduce other innovation-enhancing measures to the sector, write Ayantola Alayande and Lucy Hampton based on a new productivity working paper with Nina Jorden.
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Our first episode of season 5 looks at relationships between governments and private sector suppliers. Why do they exist? What forms do they take? And how well do they work?

To make a good battery, you need fluorine, an element that is sourced from the mineral fluorspar. That presents a looming problem for China and its considerable efforts to dominate the global electric vehicle (EV) ...

AUKUS is more than the exquisite capability of submarines. It is an agreement on values that will defend the three partners, the US, UK and Australia, and their regions from the destabilising forces of rising ...

The new administration plans to end the state monopoly on oil and gas.

Our mission is to stop crime in the waste sector altogether. One of the ways we can do this is through working with Government to improve the regulatory system to make it harder for crime to be possible. Reforming waste …

We disagree with, but grasp the idea of, subsidising a business sector that's not doing very well. But we're gawpmouthed with incomprehension at the idea that a business sector that is grossly outperforming therefore requires subsidy and support. But this is the claim:Opportunities to revive the UK's flagging economy by boosting green industry were missed in one of the least green budgets of recent years, experts have said.Several said this failure to recognise one of the fastest-expanding areas of business – the net zero economy grew by 9% in key areas last year, while the rest of the economy was stagnant, according to CBI estimates – would drag down the UK in the short and long term.Alasdair Johnstone, of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, said: "At a time when the US and EU are competing over investment in clean industries, there was little here to attract investment."Clearly, little to attract investment is wrong if the sector is growing by 9% as against no growth for the rest of the economy.Now the idea that something needs to be done to support the green economy is not alien to us. We are aware of what externalities are - those things not included in market prices - and sometimes those externalities are important enough that something must be done. Could be subsidy, could be support, could be taxation or quotas, or licences or permits and all the rest to get those externalities into market prices. But that's not the correct question here - that, the correct one, is whether more needs to be done or are we, umm, done here? We have a large outperformance from that green economy. Therefore we do seem to be done in the interventions we need to be making to grow the green economy. We suspect that the insistence is simply that the green economy would enjoy ever more of other peoples' money and therefore the green economy should gain ever more of other peoples' money. Which is something we find easy enough to reject.

If you support universal health care and the right of patients to make their own health decisions, Recovery is for you.

An approach which focuses only on compliance is a missed opportunity. Leaders have the opportunity to galvanise the people in their organisations to aim high.

Can governments afford the multi-trillion dollar clean transition required to meet climate targets? The safest way to restore health to the public finances, says Dimitri Zenghelis, is to target specific investment in properly measured assets that generate economies of scale in production and discovery, and drive long-term growth.
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Recently the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failure became one of the largest bank failures in the U.S. since the global financial melee. SVB's instability was based on a large portion of uninsured deposits, while another large portion of deposits were invested in hold-to-maturity securities. While some would like to attribute SVB's failure to the Dodd-Frank…

This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Roy Peijen and Ton Wilthagen. Click here to access the article. Since the early 2000s, the Netherlands has maintained a work-first-oriented policy to support the unemployed back to work. These policies prioritise labour market attachment with the thought that any job is better than… Continue reading Beyond “Work First”: How Private-Sector Employment Programmes Tackle Unemployment Cycles →

We will measure and track the multiple dimensions of equity in the internal and external workings of UK development organisations to influence meaningful change in their policies, practices, and partnerships.

The Equity Index is a UK social enterprise advocating for greater equity across the international development sector. We will measure and track the multiple dimensions of equity in the internal and external workings of UK development organisations to influence meaningful change in their policies, practices, and partnerships. This includes racial and gender equity, equity in knowledge production, in funding, in collaborations and more. We are an anti-racist and feminist organisation that supports the broader decolonising development and Shift the Power movements.

Motorists complain about long lines at charging stations as civil servants queue up in city-owned electric vehicles.