We borrowed and spent more than other countries to respond to the pandemic and the sharp rise in energy prices two years later.

Thrive, on behalf of Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), is hosting an international interdisciplinary conference on the topic of scaling early childhood ...

By 2040, the number of pupils in Scotland is projected to be 90,000 lower than in 2024. Policymakers face a major choice over ...

Scotland’s schools are relatively well funded. Falling pupil rolls and workforce planning represent both challenges and ...

The OBR forecast will underpin the Chancellor’s decisions at the next Spring Forecast. As the OBR comes up with its forecast, ...

Council tax in Scotland – as in England – is out of date, regressive and distortionary. How should it be reformed, and what ...

Private-sector employees tend to get a new pension pot every time they change employer. This means people who work for many different employers over their career often end up with many different ...

In Scotland, as in England, council tax bills are still based on April 1991 property values. This is unfair. The unfairness is not because property values have increased so much nationally over the ...