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Dec 11, 2024 | 
smf.co.uk | Richard Hyde |John Gibson
Published: 11 December 2024 A “new deal for 5G” is needed to tackle the causes of the 5G infrastructure investment gap, and catapult the UK to the global frontier for 5G connectivity. This report sets out the complex challenges driving the investment gap in 5G and presents a package of complementary measures which, if implemented together, can deliver the high-quality 5G network the UK needs in order to reap extensive economic and social benefits.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
smf.co.uk | Richard Hyde
Published: 23 October 2024 SMEs will have a key role in closing the UK’s investment gap with other economies. However, to ensure that SMEs can make such a contribution a more strategic policy approach towards SME investment is needed – one that goes beyond the focus on corporation tax rate and more generous capital allowances. KEY POINTSBetween 1997 and 2021, investment levels in the UK were 4.9 percentage points of GDP lower than the OECD average.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
smf.co.uk | Richard Hyde |John Gibson
Published: 07 October 2024 This briefing assesses the economic, social and environmental gains that enhancing the UK’s mobile network infrastructure and ubiquitous 5G mobile connectivity could deliver for the UK, and provides a brief overview of the key challenges holding back the UK from reaping those rewards. KEY POINTSIncreasing the UK’s growth rate is the new government’s primary mission.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
smf.co.uk | Richard Hyde |John Gibson
Published: 28 September 2024 Fraud is a growing problem around the world. This report provides a sense of the scale of fraud across 15 countries, highlights the need for international collaboration to make a meaningful impact on fraud and identifies key obstacles hindering counter-fraud efforts and how to overcome them.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
smf.co.uk | Richard Hyde |Jake Shepherd
This report is the culmination of a three-year project supported by Trust for London examining the scale and impact of in-work poverty in London. It proposes the creation of a new employment benchmark, empowering employers to better support their staff. WHY DOES LONDON NEED A NEW BENCHMARK? The first stage of this project drew attention to the scale of the in-work poverty problem in London, what drives it, and the impact it has on workers, their families, and wider society.
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May 15, 2024 | 
lgiu.org | Richard Hyde |Niamh Regan
In light of the tumultuous times facing local government in England, the Social Market Foundation has conducted research on the current state of leadership and management in local government across the country. This article unpacks the research findings. These are tumultuous times for local government in England.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
smf.co.uk | Richard Hyde |John Gibson
Fraud is not just a problem for the UK, it is a pressing issue for many countries around the world. Using data from 15 countries, this paper provides an aggregated picture of the scale of the ‘fraudemic’ being experienced by populations across the globe. KEY POINTSWe surveyed a representative sample of adults across 15 countries about fraud. These were the G7 nations, along with Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, as well as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Spain.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
providencemag.com | Richard Hyde
What are we to make of contemporary Christian nationalists, in America and abroad? How many people have earned the title, or claim it? How long have these people or the term been around? As a term to describe Americans who are skeptical of an internationalist foreign policy and a progressive domestic policy, it has not been around very long; perhaps twenty years, arising from dissatisfaction with the foreign policy of George W. Bush and just about all of the policies of Barack H. Obama.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
insidehousing.co.uk | Richard Hyde
CommentRichard Hyde, chair of the Thinkhouse editorial panel, discusses recent research into preserving new council homesSharelinesRichard Hyde, chair of the Thinkhouse editorial panel, discusses recent research into preserving new council homes #UKhousing While fewer reports than normal were published in the past month, maybe because of the election, Reforming the Right to Buy by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) would have caught my eye at any time.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Richard Hyde |Niamh Regan
Published: 25 January 2024 Local government plays a key role in delivering services to the public and developing local economies, and its role has evolved in recent years in response to a number of challenges. This report looks at the role of effective leadership and management in helping local government meet these challenges and the obstacles facing leaders and managers in local government.
