ONS figures released today show borrowing in the first 10 months of the year is £15 billion below the same months last year.

This paper investigates the effects of alleviating remoteness constraints on access to quality maternal and newborn health ...

We hypothesise that structured management practices are a General Purpose Technology that helps firms adapt to unforeseen ...

Politicians in Holyrood and Cardiff Bay make decisions on some but not all public policies, taxes and areas of public ...

The government has announced changes to funding for English councils, and that it will compensate councils for 90% of ...

Borrowing to address forecast errors must be undertaken via the UK government.

Student loans now top £50k for many graduates. We explain how repayments work, who pays most, and whether the system is 'unfair'.

What are block grant adjustments and how are they calculated?

An explanation of 'The Barnett Formula' used in funding arrangements for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We examine the labour supply response of doctors in England to a reform to public sector pensions.

We summarise new research that examines how the ban on new psychoactive substances affected drug availability and violence in prisons.

We trace the lifecycle of judicial bias in India’s criminal courts, leveraging the quasi-random assignment of judges to courts and cases.