As the economy still refuses to respond to the chancellor's policies, should he breach his fiscal rules in the Autumn Statement?

Putting in place policies which foster economic growth is a top priority for any government. Given current circumstances it is not surprising that the focus is on how to promote growth in the short term.

The NHS is experiencing its tightest financial period in more than 50 years, but there is unlikely to be much relief when the spending freeze ends in 2014/15.

This article was part of a feature giving views on the Budget 2012.

The Guardian asks experts to analyse key quotes from the Chancellor's speech.

Multinational firms outsourcing or offshoring their operations to developing countries is a problem as old as globalisation. This column looks at the effect on high-skilled labour in the home country. It presents evidence that, on average, when firms start employing high-skilled workers offshore, they also increase the number of this type of worker employed at home.

While debate about tax reform is always welcome, piecemeal reform in response to political pressure has a habit of creating instability and coming back to bite the government that introduced it.

We should not current spending cuts as either the beginning, or the end, of dramatic change in the public sector writes Paul Johnson, Director of IFS.

In April 2010 the then Labor government introduced a new higher income tax rate of 50 percent on incomes over £150,000.

Carl Emmerson argues that public service pensions could be redesigned to provide better value for taxpayers.