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Blog Post
December 07, 2020
The UK government is currently identifying reductions that will reduce its aid budget from over £15bn in 2019 to £10bn for 2021-22. In this blog we update our previous analysis which quantified the aid spend directly evaluated and graded by ICAI across different government departments.
Blog Post
December 03, 2020
When President-Elect Biden takes office in January, he will face a daunting set of challenges in the US wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. His administration’s core agenda will necessarily be shaped by the twin imperatives of containing the virus itself and supporting Americans as they weather the ec...
Blog Post
December 02, 2020
US president-elect Joe Biden has pledged to eliminate fossil fuels, domestically and globally. We look at the fiscal cost of those subsidies, which countries make most use of them overall, and how dirty are the fuels they subsidise. We look at political barriers and conclude with four reasons w...