All posts tagged "infrastructure"

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  From bitter experience: Lord O’Donnell on the next recession

  The world economy is in trouble, former UK Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell told the 2019 Global Government Summit, and governments must become more effective – repairing their economies, and reshaping

  • Posted August 14, 2019
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  Indian budget aims to tackle slowing growth

  The Indian budget, dubbed the “budget for new India,” sets out plans to invest billions in infrastructure and reduce taxes for most business owners, while raising taxes for the super-rich.

  • Posted July 14, 2019
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  How do we bridge the global infrastructure gap?

  All around the world – national, regional and local governments make decisions that serve the public and play a critical role in building and maintaining these important and substantial infrastructure

  • Posted July 2, 2019
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  IT collapse creates chaos in English courts

  Major IT network issues caused huge disruption across courts in England last week as computers and phone lines went down, leaving lawyers and judges unable to work and causing cases

  • Posted January 27, 2019
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  Asia closing digital gap with the West, report finds

  Singapore has overtaken the US in the support it provides for national digital transformation, according to analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit, while Japan has inched ahead of the UK.

  • Posted January 7, 2019
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  UK infrastructure chief champions city connections – and condemns Brexit disconnections

  Linking world cities to smaller conurbations through high-speed rail can boost wider economic growth, Lord Adonis told a London audience this month. But the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission

  • Posted November 27, 2017
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  Mathew Duncan, Finance Director of Crossrail 1, UK: Exclusive Interview

  Working on the vast project to build a fast new railway line 100km across London, Mathew Duncan’s team of finance professionals are proving that the public sector can bring in

  • Posted August 28, 2017
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  OECD warning over falling public investment

  The world’s leading developed countries should increase public investment in areas such as infrastructure and education after seven years of steady decline. That is the central recommendation of the OECD’s

  • Posted July 20, 2017
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  Report highlights UK government’s ‘weak’ infrastructure decision-making

  The UK government “struggles” to make decisions on big infrastructure projects, wasting civil servants’ time and taxpayers’ money, a specialist UK think tank has warned. A report by the Institute

  • Posted June 29, 2017
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  John Kingman, champion of HM Treasury’s supply-side activism, warns of Brexit threat

  The former second permanent secretary at the UK Treasury last week mounted a passionate defence of its activist micro-economic policies – now under threat in Westminster’s shifting political landscape. Matt

  • Posted October 24, 2016
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