public investment

Brendan Curran argues that public investment in the UK steel sector would be a step in the right direction for green jobs, but greater ambition is needed to meet the challenges ahead and to achieve a just transition. Read more

Annual investments in emerging market and developing countries other than China, to cut emissions, to boost resilience and deal with the loss and damage caused by climate change impacts, and to restore nature and land, should exceed $2 trillion by 2030, according to a new report. Read more

This paper addresses enduring misunderstandings about ‘social opportunity cost’ versus ‘social time preference’ discounting. Read more

Evidence that the UK may possess sizable resources of shale gas and oil has instigated a debate about whether a sovereign wealth fund would be an effective way to use tax revenues from their exploitation. Analysis in this paper explores the implications the sovereign wealth fund model for managing past and future UK oil and gas resources. Read more

The new UK Government under Prime Minister Theresa May has committed to boosting UK productivity and addressing the widening wealth... Read more

Headline issue The new UK Government under Prime Minister Theresa May has committed to boosting UK productivity, to addressing the... Read more

A substantial literature of social discounting has now extended over more than 50 years, but practical approaches in developed economies... Read more

External link to full article Abstract We present an example of how public policies affect the evolution of the economy... Read more

There is much talk at the moment about green growth – environmentally sustainable, biodiverse, low-carbon and climate-resilient growth in human... Read more