This is a response to the UK Government's consultation on the introduction and implementation of a Patent Box.

The FINISH project will test whether the use of microfinance for rural sanitation can be implemented at scale, in order to: accelerate access by the poor to demand-led sanitation, resulting in health, economic, and social impact; and greater sustainability in sanitation service delivery.

The UK recently experienced its deepest recession since the Second World War, during which GDP fell by over 6 per cent between the first quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009. We would naturally expect these falls in national income to have consequences for UK households' living standards. In this chapter, we examine how earnings, employment and household incomes evolved immediately before, during and after the Great Recession in the UK.

This report is evidence submitted to the Institute for Public Policy Research in response to a call for evidence on the 'future of globalisation'.

This paper looks at how to design policy on informal labour markets.

We develop an empirical search-matching model with productivity shocks so as to analyze policy interventions in a labour market with heterogeneous agents.

This paper compares partial and general equilibrium eects of alternative education policies on the distribution of education and earnings.

This note provides projections of relative and absolute income poverty among children and working-age adults in the UK for each year between 2010-11 and 2013-14.

This note provides details on the average losses among pensioner households from tax and benefit reforms that will be introduced between January 2011 and April 2014.