Study: Green industrial strategy key to tackling UK's 'dire productivity performance'

Michael Holder
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Study: Green industrial strategy key to tackling UK's 'dire productivity performance'

IPPR report reveals how UK is lagging badly behind the rest of the G7 in terms of public and private sector, undermining productivity, liviung standards, and the net zero transition

The UK is continuing to lag behind its G7 and OECD competitors in terms of public and private sector investment, according to a major new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think...

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