Business and Economics
Our view on prospects for the UK and global economies, as well as other economic issues that business and policymakers should be thinking about.
October 10, 2019
By Jamie Durham and John Hawksworth. The high cost of living close to, and so potentially within the prime catchment area of, a high performing school has potentially serious adverse implications for social mobility.
July 18, 2019
PwC's Mike Jakeman looks at the affordability of the rental sector and our latest projections for house prices.
May 14, 2019
Gravity without weight - can trade in services defy gravity? PwC's Jing Teow and Yuval Fertig question whether the lessons of the gravity model still hold true given the growing importance of services in global trade flows.
May 08, 2019
3 ways new digital technologies can boost service sector productivity growth.
March 28, 2019
Following our latest UK Economic Outlook launch, John Hawksworth takes a detailed look at the performance of UK regions over the past five decades.
March 25, 2019
The UK continues to make steady progress towards gender equality in the workforce - but this progress hasn't been distributed equally across the UK.
February 05, 2019
By John Hawksworth and Mike Jakeman. We explore whether wages in emerging markets will catch up with those in the UK, and what impact this may have on the UK Economy.
November 27, 2018
By Carmen Cheung. The UK has seen impressive jobs growth in recent years, but our past research suggests that we still lag behind leading OECD nations. In our latest research in this series, we take a look at the UK’s performance.
November 13, 2018
By John Hawksworth. Following the release of our latest UK Economic Outlook, we analyse UK growth prospects.
November 08, 2018
This year’s edition of Good Growth for Cities analysed long term trends in city performance over the decade from 2005-7 to 2015-17.
October 31, 2018
By John Hawksworth, Chief Economist. The big question ahead of this Budget was how the Chancellor would pay for the large increase in NHS spending announced by the Prime Minister back in June. Further spending cuts in areas other than health seemed to have been ruled out by the Prime Minister’s later pledge to ‘end austerity’, so it looked like some combination of higher taxes and higher borrowing would be needed.
October 25, 2018
Mike Jakeman, Senior economist, outlines his prediction for the upcoming Budget.
September 27, 2018
by Mike Jakeman Senior Economist Email The appeal of living in the UK has continued to weaken for other Europeans. New data on migration has...
August 03, 2017
By John Hawksworth and Jamie Durham Traditional economic theory would suggest that low unemployment will be associated with relatively high wage inflation - and vice...
July 31, 2017
By Hugh Dance and John Hawksworth Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are some of the hottest topics around today. On the one hand, AI...
November 24, 2016
By John Hawksworth We live in turbulent times, but so far the Brexit vote has not had a major negative effect on UK economic growth....
March 18, 2016
By John Hawksworth As the Chancellor was at pains to stress, the global economic outlook has turned stormy since the Autumn Statement in November. Together...
November 27, 2015
By John Hawksworth Lower than expected public borrowing forecasts allowed the Chancellor to cancel planned cuts to tax credits next year while boosting spending on...
July 10, 2015
By John Hawksworth The Chancellor stuck to his pre-election objective of eliminating the budget deficit before the end of this Parliament, but provided more concrete...
August 28, 2014
By John Hawksworth From the turn of the century until around 2012, the big story in macroeconomics was the shift in economic power to the...
