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Productivity, Trade, and Regional Economies

Why is the UK less productive than similarly advanced nations and what can be done about it? How are the gains from economic growth distributed and why does this matter? How can the increasing regional disparities be addressed to prevent the widening gap between the different component parts of the United Kingdom?

NIESR has a long record of leading trade, productivity and regional analysis. Working with partners within the devolved nations, as well as with other major research centres, we focus our research on improving the measurement of productivity, understanding the the drivers of firm behaviour and assessing how policy affects households at a regional level.

Projects

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Alternatives to Commercial Lending in the SME Business Market

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Inclusive Productivity: The Macroeconomic Consequences of the UK’s Unequal Productivity Performance

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Business Investment and Brexit

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Public Investment and Supply

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Data Use and Productivity in the UK: an Economic Modelling and Longitudinal Study

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Investigating the Factors Driving Scotland’s Productivity Gap with International Countries

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Reindustrialising the United Kingdom

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Understanding the Drivers of Innovation and Productivity across Firms, Regions and Industries in the UK

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Publications

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Economic Priorities for the 2024 General Election

18 Jun 2024

General Election Briefing

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Levelling Up

14 Jun 2024

General Election Briefing

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Productivity

06 Jun 2024

General Election Briefing

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A Pre-Election Gloom

09 May 2024

UK Economic Outlook

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Examining Rising Inactivity and NHS Waiting Times

09 May 2024

UK Economic Outlook Box Analysis

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Local Authority Finance

01 May 2024

General Election Briefing

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UK Business Investment: Economists, Managers, Financiers

25 Apr 2024

UK Productivity Commission

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Weighing the Past, to Assess the Future

18 Mar 2024

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Blog Posts

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Productivity, Living Standards and Wellbeing: Comparing the UK and Australia

Eliza da Silva Gomes

Adrian Pabst

29 Apr 2024

4 min read

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Exploring the Data on UK Productivity Performance

Issam Samiri

Stephen Millard

11 Dec 2023

4 min read

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UK Investment Past and Prospects: A Framework for Analysis

Catherine Mann

01 Dec 2023

6 min read

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How we Should Invest in Productivity

Paul Fisher

30 Nov 2023

7 min read

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Where Are We With Regional Inequalities in the UK?

Adrian Pabst

Jagjit S. Chadha

01 Nov 2023

5 min read

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Exploring Recent Revisions to GDP

Huw Dixon

09 Oct 2023

5 min read

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What’s Happening to Levelling Up?

Arnab Bhattacharjee

Adrian Pabst

02 Oct 2023

6 min read

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UK Trade and the Exchange Rate

Paul Mortimer-Lee

Stephen Millard

24 Apr 2023

6 min read

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News

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How are the UK’s Devolved Nations Faring Ahead of the General Election?

16 May 2024

12 min read

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The Industrial Turn

31 Oct 2023

5 min read

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Understanding the Causes of the UK’s Low Productivity

23 Sep 2021

5 min read

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Press Release: Destitution levels are rising across the country – and terribly worrying in certain regions, NIESR research shows

22 Feb 2021

4 min read

Events

Investing for Growth: boosting productivity through higher public and private investment

The causes of, and solutions to, the woeful productivity performance of the UK economy since the Global Financial Crisis has been the subject of much analysis in the last 15...

11:00 to 13:00

12 March, 2024

The Outlook for the Welsh Economy

With rising wages helping to improve consumer confidence, will 2024 be a better year for the UK economy? As we enter an election year for the Westminster government, this event...

11:00 to 13:00

20 February, 2024

Prais Lecture with Chris Pissarides: The Future of Work and Wellbeing

Automation technologies are transforming work, society and the economy in the UK in ways comparable to the Industrial Revolution, with their adoption likely to significantly impact the future labour market....

18:30 to 20:00

7 December, 2023

A View and Prospects for British Investment

For our second Productivity Commission workshop exploring the theme of ‘investment’, Catherine Mann will be presenting a draft of her paper that explores some policy questions relating to UK investment....

11:00 to 13:00

8 November, 2023

How Can We Raise Investment?

This workshop, organised on behalf of the Productivity Commission, will explore the theme of ‘investment’. Paul Fisher, Chair of the London Bullion Market Association and formerly Deputy Head of the...

11:00 to 13:00

11 October, 2023

Productivity Commission Evidence Session: Examining the Role of International Investment

As a medium-sized open economy, the UK depends more on trade and international investment than a number of other OECD advanced economies. This Productivity Commission evidence session examines the role...

14:00 to 16:00

20 July, 2023

High Dimensional Forecasting and its Pitfalls – M. Hashem Pesaran

Forecasting is central to macroeconomic policy making and risk management, and it is now routine to exploit data on a large number of variables to produce forecasts. In doing so,...

15:00 to 16:30

21 June, 2023

Finance and Growth Workshop

In December 2022 the Government announced a package of reforms aimed at driving growth and competitiveness in the financial services sector. Known as the ‘Edinburgh Reforms’, they comprise four main...

10:00 to 16:30

7 June, 2023

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