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  1. Mandelson: The world is not flat

    ord Mandelson made a speech for ippr at the London Stock Exchange today.

  2. Mandelson highlights £27 billion export gap

    ppr analysis shows that while UK exports to BRIC countries have increased rapidly in the last decade, they still lag behind Britain's share of world trade. If Britain increased its share of BRIC countries' imports from their current levels…

  3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - what's in store for housing in the next 15 years?

    ecent ippr research findings send a clear message to policymakers: however the economy turns out in the years ahead, a serious gap looms between housing supply and demand.

  4. Warning that first wave of LEPs are not drawing on all resources available to them

    ew research by ippr North and ACEVO finds that many Local Enterprise Partnerships in the North are missing out on the added value and benefits available to them by failing to engage effectively with local voluntary organisations and social…

  5. Leading Labour MP urges Prince William to modernise the monarchy

    ne of the stars of Labour's 2010 intake of MPs, the leading historian Tristram Hunt, argues in a major essay that Prince William needs to steer clear of his father's 'reactionary, anti-Enlightenment sensibility' if he wants to take the…

  6. Lack of growth highlights need for a 'Plan B' in the Budget

    Revised figures on growth published today should lead the Chancellor George Osborne to make his forthcoming Budget a budget for growth, according to a new collection of essays

  7. Uncertain data puts a question mark over government plans to cut foreign student numbers

    New statistics released today show that net migration continued to rise in the year to June 2010. It appears that a continuing boom in the number of foreign students coming to the UK may be one of the factors which explain the increase.…

  8. Pursuit of artificial immigration targets will cause real damage to UK universities and colleges

    Tens of thousands of genuine international students are at risk of being turned away from British universities and colleges, costing the UK billions of pounds, in pursuit of an artificial target for cutting immigration. That is the…

  9. It's fairer up North but inequality is rising

    new report by ippr north has found that the gap between the rich and poor is narrower in the North than in the rest of the UK, but the gap is growing as pay for people at the top increases faster than at the bottom.

  10. Latest figures show alarming rise in the number of people giving up the search for work

    he latest unemployment figures reveal that almost 100,000 people gave up looking for work during the last three months of 2010, according to analysis by ippr.

  11. Northern Lights list reveals 50 'ones to watch' in the North of England

    n the run up to awards season, ippr north reveals 50 of the brightest and most talented people in the North of England from the worlds of business, academia, public service, politics, culture, the arts and social and community action.

  12. ippr warns of possible double dip in employment as cuts begin to bite

    ppr argues that employment figures out today will represent a real test of the government's economic strategy. Reducing the deficit by making substantial cuts in public spending and increasing taxes has been justified by the government as…