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The home for all research on UK prosperity, growth and equality commissioned by The John Mills Institute for Prosperity.

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Manufacturing · Exchange Rate Policy
How to Make the Economy Grow From John Mills

Low growth in the UK – and across the West compared to the East is not inevitable. It has happened because we have strived to achieve the wrong policy goals.

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Elephant in the room
Manufacturing · Exchange Rate Policy
The Elephant in the Room: Why UK living standards may be lower in 2030 than today From The John Mills Institute for Prosperity

In his latest book, John Mills tackles The Elephant in the Room, which he describes as the economic policies pursued by consecutive over the last 40 years which has led to Britain deinstruialising on a scale unrivalled anywhere else in the world.

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Coronavirus
Covid-19
The Road to Recovery: Reviving Manufacturing after Coronavirus From John Mills

A report published jointly by the John Mills Institute for Prosperity and Civitas on why Britain should revive our depleted manufacturing industry after Covid-19.

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Covid-19 · Manufacturing
Report: Manufacturing a Recovery From Coronavirus From John Mills

Recovery from the coronavirus crisis won’t be easy anywhere in the world. It may, however, be considerably more difficult in the UK than elsewhere because the UK’s underlying economy was in much worse shape before the crisis hit us than is generally realised.

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Manufacturing
Raising Productivity - How to get the UK economy to grow sustainably at 3% to 4% a year From John Mills

The UK has a chronic productivity problem. Output per person is virtually the same as it was ten years ago. This is why the economy is growing so slowly and why most people’s incomes, net of inflation, have stagnated or declined. Furthermore, without significant policy changes, there is little prospect of this situation improving as far ahead as we can see.

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Industrial Britain
Manufacturing
Britain's Achilles Heel - Our Uncompetitive Pound From John Mills

This book is about questions of evident importance to which there appear to be no obvious answers. Why is economic growth and prosperity in the world so patchy and unstable? Why are countries in the East doing so much better in growth terms than those in the West? Why have incomes for so many people in both Europe and the USA stagnated for long periods? Why is there so much inequality – and debt? Are all these conditions inevitable or are there more effective ways of ordering our economic affairs which could achieve better results?

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Exchange Rate Policy
Brexit Economics - How to make the UK economy the powerhouse of Europe whatever happens with the Brexit negotiations From John Mills

We have a major problem in our financial relationship with the other EU countries. It would exist whether or not the Brexit vote on 23rd June 2016 had gone the way it did. Furthermore, unless action is taken to deal with it, this challenge is likely to continue to be with us whatever the outcome of the Brexit negotiations currently in train. This is a matter which ought to concern all the political parties in the UK as everyone in the country shares a common interest in finding a solution.

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