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Economic Growth

Strength in numbers: combined authorities and the levelling up agenda

Bringing together local authorities under city-regional mayors, combined authorities can achieve far more than individual councils. At a GGF webinar, public servants and economists considered their role in the government’s […]

Reset your economy: the power of green stimulus packages

Around the world, governments are using stimulus packages to jump-start business growth. Catherine Early explores the potential of ‘green recovery’ investments, designed to reshape as well as rebuild national economies […]

Rebalancing the UK: ‘Levelling Up’ in the era of COVID-19

With Boris Johnson’s electoral fortunes resting on ‘Levelling Up’ the North and Midlands, the agenda still has legs. At a GGF webinar, panellists including a former HMT special adviser, DEXEU […]
Greg Orencsak, deputy minister of finance and chair of the Ontario Financing Authority, Province of Ontario, Canada, speaking at the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit

The productivity problem: causes, consequences and cures

Poor productivity hampers wage growth, stoking public dissatisfaction. As delegates heard at the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, this is a decades-old problem with complex roots – and one demanding […]

The roots of risk: how economic imbalances are poisoning politics

Gathering in Paris for the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, finance department leaders from 10 countries debated the political risks threatening economic growth – and their roots in rising inequality, […]

Hong Kong launches innovation lab

A Smart Government Innovation Lab (Smart LAB) has been launched in Hong Kong, with the aim of supporting tech SMEs and start-ups to develop products that can help improve public […]

New compendium profiles innovative techniques from around the world

A leading think tank has published a compendium detailing 13 innovative techniques deployed in public sectors around the world, including accelerator programmes, challenge prizes, evidence quality standards, and public sector […]

Red Cross allies with African bank to promote gender equality

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have signed a pledge to collaborate on promoting gender equality and economic opportunities in Africa’s […]

US aims to launch ‘innovation incubator’ in 2019

The US aims to establish an ‘innovation incubator’ during 2019, bringing together industry, academia and the government to address issues facing federal agencies. Margaret Weichert, deputy director of the Office […]

Canadian and Brazilian innovation win mixed reviews from OPSI

Public sector innovation is advancing in Canada and Brazil, but has yet to be a core objective, according to the preliminary findings of research by the OECD’s Observatory of Public […]