Economy
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A hat trick of failures: How ‘the Blob’ led the British Government down the wrong path
£5.00Jim McConalogue and Tim Knox, June 2020 Britain has achieved an undesirable hat trick of failures in its Covid-19 pandemic response. Jim McConalogue and Tim Knox argue in this report that: Along with Spain, Britain has the highest excess death rate per capita in the world for the first half of 2020. The government’s reaction… Read Full Article
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A Long March through the Institutions
£5.00Radomir Tylecote and Robert Clark, September 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a reassessment among Western powers of their approach to China. This report by Radomir Tylecote and Robert Clark analyses China’s strategy towards international institutions and indicates that there are two ‘fronts’ to China’s contemporary expansionist strategy. • The first is to influence and… Read Full Article
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A Nation of Innovators
£8.00Phil Radford, May 2025 Civitas has partnered with the Bessemer Society and the ERA Foundation to contribute to the new UK Industrial Strategy. Our objective is to identify barriers to growth, and suggest practical measures that will boost advanced manufacturing in the UK. Our proposals draw on the business experience of innovators and serial entrepreneurs… Read Full Article
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A Whole New Ball Game
£7.00Aaryaman Banerji, August 2024 The governance of the men’s football industry in England has been the subject of extensive debate and speculation since the publication of the Fan-Led Review into football in 2021. The majority of the 47 recommendations made in the initial review did, in some form, make it into the previous government’s Football… Read Full Article
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Adapting the manufacturing sector for a brighter future:
£5.00Jim McConalogue and Aaryaman Banerji, March 2023 In this latest Civitas publication, Dr Jim McConologue and Aaryaman Banerji look into energy resilience among SME manufacturers in the UK. The importance of SMEs within the manufacturing sector and across the UK economy should not be overlooked. There are 244,140 manufacturing businesses across the UK providing just… Read Full Article
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An analysis of the effects of taxes and benefits on household income
£4.00Tim Knox and Daniel Lilley, January 2023 This analysis of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data for the impact of tax and benefits on household income shows that a record 54.2 per cent of individuals now live in households which receive more in benefits – including ‘benefits in kind such as health and education spending… Read Full Article
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Back to basics: what is childcare policy for?
£7.00Ellen Pasternack and George Cook, April 2024 Childcare is a larger political priority in the UK than it ever has been before, and the target of unprecedented, and growing, levels of public spending. Despite this, there is little clarity on what the purpose of childcare policy is. Politicians and policymakers often talk as though childcare… Read Full Article
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Backing Britain’s Global Champions
£6.00Jim McConalogue, July 2022 The Prime Minister and current government have advocated ‘Global Britain’ at several key moments, and it is therefore important to consider what it means and how the UK government can achieve this ambition. This research paper sets out to identify what the UK does differently from France, Germany and Sweden, notably… Read Full Article
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Balancing taxes and benefits
£8.00Daniel Lilley and Ellen Pasternack, February 2025 According to the latest data from the Office of National Statistics, more than half of households in the United Kingdom (52.6 per cent) receive more from the state in benefits (including benefits in kind such as NHS care) than they pay in taxes. Overall, approximately 35.1 million individuals… Read Full Article
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Breaking the Care Ceiling
£9.00Frank Young and Daniel Lilley, September 2023 This Civitas report provides new evidence on the number of care leavers who go to university in the UK alongside the first-ever league table of care leavers at UK universities. In 2022 the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care estimated the lifetime cost of poor outcomes for children… Read Full Article
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Britain’s Demographic Challenge:
£7.00Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, September 2017 The population of the United Kingdom is growing at a rate of more than 500,000 a year, equivalent to a new town of about 10,000 people being created every week. On current projections, by 2039 there will be nearly 10 million more people living here – enough to… Read Full Article
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Britain’s Export Boom
£5.00Marcus Gibson, May 2020 It has been widely claimed by many leading voices of the UK’s institutions, corporations and organisations that the UK would face a national disaster if it left the European Union. But as Marcus Gibson argues, a whole generation of organisations and individuals have been proved wrong – given that the post-Brexit… Read Full Article
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