We are pleased to announce the 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference, taking place in London, UK, on ...

On April 15, 1975, Denis Healey, the Labour chancellor, presented his budget. An economic crisis was upon us. Inflation was ...

Living standards across areas can be measured in many ways. Common approaches are to look at differences in local productivity (which reflect differences in the earnings of those working, but not ...

Londoners may have the highest average incomes, but their household spending once you account for housing costs is lower than other regions.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain. We use small-area estimation methods that combine information from a household ...

On average, London local authorities rank at the top of the income distribution, but are bottom of the net-of-housing consumption distribution. Londoners may have the highest average incomes, but ...

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain. We use small-area estimation methods that combine information from a household ...

If you measure living standards by looking at how much people spend on goods and services (excluding housing-related expenditures and adjusting for household size) you get a starkly different picture ...