Design as a driver of innovation in the East Midlands

This study reports on research and consultation with local stakeholders to discuss the role of design as part of the innovation agenda in the East Midlands. A key finding of this research iss that the East Midlands has a very strong design industry and that businesses in the region use design to a much greater extent than in most other regions

Interim report on the feasibility of constructing a regional Measure of Domestic Progress (MDP) for East Midlands Development Agency

Investigates the feasibility of constructing an adjusted monetarised indicator of regional economic well-being, based on the structure of the nef’s Measure of Domestic Progress (MDP). Provided an overview of challenges in issues addressed in the development of the Regional Index of Sustainable Economic Wellbeing (RISEW) for the 2006 Regional Economic Strategy

Economic Growth And Child Undernutrition

Sebastian Vollmer and colleagues (April, 2014)1 conclude that “the contribution of economic growth to the reduction in early childhood undernutrition in developing countries is very small, if it exists at all”. Progress will therefore require a shift from “the so-called trickle-down approach of a growth-mediated strategy” to “direct investments in health and nutrition”.

Defining And Measuring Green FDI: An Exploratory Review Of Existing Work And Evidence

This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify investment policy restrictions to green FDI. It does so by reviewing the literature and existing work on the contributions of FDI to the environment; by providing a two-part definition of green FDI; and by discussing various assumptions necessary to estimate the magnitude of \u27green\u27 FDI

Economic effects of tax cooperation in an enlarged European Union

This study evaluates the economic effects of different scenarios of tax cooperation in the enlarged European Union in the framework of a General Equilibrium Model. The study develops scenarios for a common corporate tax base applicable in all EU Member States, for full harmonisation of tax bases and tax rates, and for the exchange of savings information in the context of personal income taxationEuropean Union, taxation, company taxation

Company Car Taxation

This study presents new, nearly EU wide estimates of the level of subsidies to company cars. In addition, it also provides some preliminary rough illustrations of the possible effects of such subsidies on economic welfare and environment and discusses the policy implications.taxation, car taxation, subsidies, environment