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Challenges for levelling up

On 4 February 2022 from 10:00 to 11:00

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At this event, IFS researchers will put the Levelling Up White Paper in context by outlining the current pattern of taxes and public spending around the country and presenting new work that looks at geographic inequalities in labour market outcomes.

This week, the Government has published their ‘Levelling Up White Paper’, outlining twelve missions to be achieved by 2030 across pay, employment, education and health. This comes against a backdrop of large and persistent regional inequalities that will take a long period of focus to fix.

At this event, IFS researchers put the White Paper in context by outlining the current pattern of taxes and public spending around the country and presented new work that looks at geographic inequalities in labour market outcomes (published as part of the flagship IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, funded by the Nuffield Foundation).

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Paul Johnson

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Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.

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David Phillips

Associate Director

David is Head of Devolved and Local Government Finance. He also works on tax in developing countries as part of our TaxDev centre.

Xiaowei Xu

Senior Research Economist

Xiaowei joined the IFS in 2018 and works in the Income, Work and Welfare sector.