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Viewed from Mars, it might seem bizarre that policy-makers in western economies should be panicking about low productivity, when AI is rapidly fulfilling forecasts of the automation of anything between 10 and 30 per cent of existing jobs...

April is a cruel month, snatching back promises of spring, killing off winter’s frail survivors. This year, however, the cruelty is bleakly evident.

We all rely on infrastructure every day. We need to it to communicate, to travel, to provide us with broadband, energy and water and so much more.

The Office of Rail and Road has launched PR23, the latest periodic review of Network Rail. But decarbonisation appears to be low on the agenda. What does this mean for the UK’s net-zero rail ambitions? And what must be done to keep decarbonisation on track?

If aviation is to be resuscitated, the key question that needs to be answered from an economic and regulatory perspective is: how should the costs of the pandemic on the airport sector be shared?

Frontier Economics was commissioned to undertake an evidence review and detailed econometric study for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), with the objective of obtaining a better understanding of the drivers of firm productivity growth in rural areas.

The French government is already thinking about what type of mechanism could replace the current regulation of sales of nuclear power by EDF, when the existing intervention comes to an end in 2025.