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Thu, 17/08/2023 - 20:32

The UK’s public sector is in crisis. More than a decade of chronic underinvestment is now manifesting in threadbare public services delivered by an underpaid, over-stretched workforce. What we’re witnessing is worse than post-pandemic pressures—it’s the managed decline of the public sector itself. The term ‘managed decline’ is generally used to describe the deterioration of […]

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Thu, 17/08/2023 - 19:00

If the ninety-eight-page indictment by Fani T. Willis, district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, of Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, and seventeen other people is ever made into a movie, it should be called The Framing of Ruby Freeman. Willis gives names to, and levels charges at, some of the people who appear anonymously in Jack […]

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Thu, 17/08/2023 - 18:00
Harvey Daniell and Andre Moreira The latest developments in the labour market are often central to monetary policy decisions. We outline a framework for mapping labour market indicators to near-term employment and pay growth, drawing on established insights from the ‘nowcasting’ literature. The key benefits of our approach are: the ability to map a range … Continue reading Forecasting near-term trends in the labour market