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At the end of the parliamentary year, we would normally have received a progress report form the Scottish Government on their efforts to tackle child poverty and how they are making progress towards the statutory child poverty targets. The report has been postponed indefinitely, but this doesn’t mean that work …
Poverty in Scotland: A discussion with JRF on progress pre, during and post Covid-19 Read More »
Mairi Spowage is joined by colleague Emma Congreve from the Fraser of Allander Institute and Dr Jonathan Norris from the Department of Economics at Strathclyde to discuss the release of two new economic perspective articles on Friday 29 June. Issues around poverty and the poverty related attainment gap were core …
Graeme Roy is joined by Mairi Spowage and Stephen Boyle of the Fraser of Allander Institute, and Professor Andrew Goudie of the University of Strathclyde to discuss the latest economic implications of the global crisis. The team discuss the current ongoing economic implications for the global, UK and Scottish economies, …
Graeme Roy, Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute is joined by Mairi Spowage, Deputy Director of the Institute and Steve Williams, Senior Partner at Deloitte to discuss the upcoming Fraser of Allander Economic Commentary. The Institute will set out the key messages from the latest Quarterly Economic Commentary, including …
A preview of the FAI Quarterly Economic Commentary with Deloitte Read More »
Graeme Roy is joined by Calum Paterson, Managing Partner at Scottish Equity Partners to discuss how businesses have been affected by the crisis, how they are having to adapt to the new face of the economy and the long term role policymakers have to play in order to support businesses. …
Business and the new normal, a conversation with Calum Paterson Read More »
Emma Congreve is joined by Alan Thornburrow, Scotland Director at Business in the Community (BITC) to discuss how businesses have been adapting, the challenges that face them in starting to reopen, and the longer term issues that businesses and government need to face. Chair Emma Congreve, Fraser of Allander Institute …
Making the restart work for business and employees Read More »
The closure of schools and childcare facilities have meant most parents currently have their children at home. Given the expectation that children won’t return to full time education for some time yet, this raises big questions over the quality of their education and the ability of their parents to juggle …
What Coronavirus means for education, childcare and working parents Read More »
Mairi Spowage is joined by David Eiser from the FAI, Dr Ed Poole and Guto Ifan from the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, and David Philips from the Institute For Fiscal Studies to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on devolved fiscal frameworks.
On Friday 15th May, the Fraser of Allander team hosted a webinar, giving an overview of the current economic situation, the impact of the pandemic and the immediate outlook for the Scottish economy. The presentations focussed on the economic context, highlighting some key findings from research by the institute into …
Implications of the crisis on the Scottish economy – FAI webinar Read More »
Mairi Spowage is joined by Ian Bruce, Chief Officer at the Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector (GCVS) and Jenny Paterson, CEO of Breakthrough, to discuss how the current pandemic is affecting the voluntary sector in Scotland. This includes the immediate impact on the sector of the crisis and how …