New Economics Foundation

According to the latest figures released by the OECD, for the first time in six years foreign investment by UK residents in the rest of the world (outward investment) exceeded what the UK economy...

Last week Labour launched Housing for the Many, outlining the party’s plans to fix the UK’s broken housing system. In recent years, a succession of green and white papers, and legislation, have...

Reacting to today’s ONS stats on GDP, Alfie Stirling, Head of Economics at the New Economics Foundation, said: “Today’s GDP estimates from the Office for National Statistics are again disappointing,...

Every day in the UK, people are dying due to a lack of timely or effective healthcare or public health interventions. And new official data released last week shows things are getting worse, not...

Communities are desperate to tackle one of the biggest environmental and health problems we face – air pollution. NEF wants to put the power of citizen science in their hands. With air monitoring...

Another week, another oil company telling us that we have no choice but to keep on using fossil fuels for years to come. Enough. They and their shareholders should spend a bit more time listening to...

Responding to today’s ONS Labour Market statistics, New Economics Foundation looks at what’s going on behind the headline figures on wages and inflation. Alfie Stirling, Head of Economics at the New Economics Foundation, said: “While it is welcome news to see regular pay slightly higher at the beginning of 2018 in real terms than at the same time in 2017, the bigger picture makes for...

Back in November I invited a local solar installation company round to my house to take a look at the roof. I hadn’t expected it to be a money tree, but I was still surprised and disappointed when the quote came in. It would take 16 years to earn back a solar...

High rents....

To really “take back control” of UK fisheries, we must treat fishing rights as a public resource Griffin Carpenter argued that some fishing quota should be allocated based on social and environmental criteria to benefit our marine environment. Read more Ireland among worst offenders for overfishing, says new reportOur new report showing the EU members states most responsible for setting...