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Election Special: Your questions answered
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In the final run up to the election, we answer your questions about everything from borrowing to AI to the part that luck plays in the economy.
27 June 2024
Election Special: The Labour manifesto explained
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We discuss the Labour manifesto launched on Thursday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.
14 June 2024
Election Special: The Conservative manifesto explained
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We discuss the Conservative manifesto launched on Tuesday and give our reaction to the policies and pledges within it.
12 June 2024
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General Election 2024: IFS manifesto analysis
event 24 June 2024
IFS researchers and Director Paul Johnson will deliver their analysis of the parties' manifestos at a live-streamed press briefing.
Inaugural IFS postdoc workshop
workshop 4 July 2024
This academic workshop on applied public and labour economics will feature presentations by alumni of the IFS postdoc scheme.
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2024
event 25 July 2024
This online event will present the key findings from our latest flagship annual report on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK.
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Costly dangers of the unclenched fiscal fist

Comment

The Prime Minister did not leave his successor with the financial room to cope with even a modest economic slowdown.

16 October 2008

Financial crisis: someone will have to get us out of all this debt

Comment

This article was published in The Telegraph on 16th October 2008.

16 October 2008

NHS spending - what are the future plans?

Comment

This article was published in the Health Service Journal on 16th October 2008.

16 October 2008

Tax reform and the public finances

Presentation

Robert Chote, Director of IFS, delivered this key note speech at a CBI tax conference, 'Is the corporate tax system fit for purpose', on 13 October 2008.

14 October 2008

Analysis: Osborne reforms are raising questions

Comment

This article was published in BBC News Online on 30th September 2008.

30 September 2008

Options for Tax Credit reform

Report

As part of a report produced by Barnardo's, we modelled three reforms to the tax credit system.

9 September 2008

Are tax subsidies for private medical insurance self-financing? Evidence from a microsimulation model

Journal article

This paper develops an empirical strategy to estimate whether subsidies to private medical insurance are self-financing in countries where public and private insurance coexist and the latter covers the same treatments as the former.

1 September 2008

Analysis - Is this a sustainable fiscal rule?

Comment

This article was published in the Public Finance Magazine on 29th July 2008

29 July 2008

A decade of personal tax and transfer reforms in the UK: in search of equity or efficiency?

Presentation

Presentation given at NZAE/ESAM conference, Wellington, July 2008

14 July 2008

How redistributive is the school funding system?

Presentation

10 June 2008

Level playing field? The implications of school funding

Report

This report examines how overall levels of public spending on education and schools in the UK have evolved in recent years, how the English school funding system allocates money to individual schools and the extent to which the school funding system is redistributive.

10 June 2008