All posts tagged "policymakers"

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  Governments’ vital role to help small businesses flourish in a post-COVID world

  Two things that united us during the pandemic were the recognition that small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities, and our collective determination to keep them afloat. They are

  • Posted June 11, 2021
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  Leading Questions podcast: civil service leaders share what they learned from their time at the top

  From working with ministers to managing personal resilience, every episode a current or former senior civil servant reflects candidly on the challenges they have faced in their career and what

  • Posted April 15, 2021
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  Where science meets politics: policymaking in the pandemic

  As the COVID-19 pandemic ripped across the world, it lent new urgency to an old question: how can governments improve how they solicit and act on scientific advice? A panel

  • Posted March 31, 2021
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  Learning from our mistakes: the post-COVID recovery

  After the financial crisis, a slow and imbalanced recovery fostered a new set of social, health, economic and political problems. At a GGF webinar, expert panellists discussed how policymakers can

  • Posted January 3, 2021
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  UK energy policymakers should learn from overseas and gather external advice, report finds

  The UK government should learn lessons from Canada, Germany, France and the Netherlands to improve its energy policymaking, according to new research by the Institute for Government (IfG) think tank.

  • Posted December 9, 2020
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  End short-term thinking and focus on delivery, civil service reform panel told

  The UK civil service must look beyond policymaking to focus on implementation and delivery, former senior political advisers told an influential panel examining civil service reform last week. Jonathan Powell,

  • Posted December 7, 2020
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  Restoring goodwill: former UK HR chief Kevin White on repairing national government’s damaged reputation

  The UK’s response to COVID-19 fostered a suspicion of leadership, says former UK HR chief Kevin White – but it’s also an opportunity to revive trust in public services. The

  • Posted November 13, 2020
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  Use your intelligence: former UK spy chief on good decisions and poor information

  These days, the public discourse is awash with fake news; but intelligence operatives have always worked in an environment of uncertainty and incomplete data. At a lecture last week, former

  • Posted November 6, 2020
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  Overcoming uncertainty: former environment and Brexit chief Clare Moriarty

  Following the 2016 referendum, Clare Moriarty ran the environment department then the UK’s EU exit operations. She tells Matt Ross how a focus on human nature helped her to lead

  • Posted November 4, 2020
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  Digital finance crucial to achieving sustainable development goals, says UN

  Unleashing the potential of digital finance could have a transformational impact on sustainable development, according to a report from a taskforce convened by the United Nations’ secretary-general. ‘People’s Money: Harnessing

  • Posted September 11, 2020
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