HIGHLIGHT: Investment, infrastructure and levelling up
with Professor Sir Tim Besley
IFS Zooms In: The Economy · Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Show Notes
The government has pledged to make 'levelling up' a core part of their policy agenda. To achieve this, they have promised increased investment spending and infrastructure spending.
What is investment spending? Why is investment so much lower now than it was 40 or 50 years ago? How does this relate to the levelling up agenda?
This week, we are digging into the archives. In this episode from last year we spoke with Professor Sir Tim Besley, Professor of Economics at LSE and member of the National Infrastructure Commission, and Ben Zaranko, Research Economist at IFS.
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