Fraser of Allander Institute
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Fraser of Allander Institute
@Strath_FAI
The Fraser of Allander Institute is an independent economic research unit providing expert analysis and insight on the Scottish economy. Part of @Strath_Econ.
- Replying to @Strath_FAIWill we get this level of detail today? We’ll be honest, given the Scottish Government’s track record on budget transparency, our expectations are low. We’ll be doing what we can to get under the figures and we’ll have our initial analysis up on our website later this afternoon.
- 10 things to know about our Budget Report: 1/ Scotland’s economy recovered more quickly than anticipated from the pandemic, and is now 0.9% larger than Q4 2019; but has had virtually no growth over past 24 months. @scotfisccomm is unlikely to be very optimistic going forward
- DFM said she was increasing the Starter and Basic rate bands by inflation. You might have thought that this would mean the threshold increasing by inflation. But no, they've increased the size of the band by inflation not the threshold. Feels a little opaque. #scottishbudget
- GERS results are in! Net fiscal balance has widened to -10.4%. Fall in oil and gas revenues, spending per head rising faster than the UK average, and additional revenues from income tax rates and fiscal drag - read below and check back during the day
- GERS 2020: Socially distance yourself from the myths and furore - Read more: fraserofallander.org/scottish-econo…
- 1/ Today @hmrcgovuk published two interesting pieces of research regarding intra-UK migration and labour market participation – especially interesting given the debate in Scotland around tax bands and rates
- The evolution of the Scottish Budget 2020/21 – and a look forward to the Spending Review - Read more: fraserofallander.org/scottish-econo…
- Following the news that Graeme Roy is taking up a new position as Dean of External Engagement @UofGlasgow @UofGAsbs in March 2021, we're pleased to announce that Mairi Spowage will take over as Interim Director of the Institute. Press release 👇A huge congrats to Mairi Spowage who will take up the position of interim Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute from March 2021. Mairi is a former @Scotgov Senior Statistician and has been Deputy Director of @strath_fai since 2019. strath.ac.uk/whystrathclyde…
- The Scottish Government's 'Advisory Group on Economic Recovery' released a report earlier today setting out its thoughts on the economy recovery from #COVID19. Here are some reflections from us on this new report:
- Our first reaction to the #ScottishBudget (we'll be publishing more later today when we've gone through more of the documents!): It was widely trailed that this would be a difficult budget and it has proved so. The DFM made much of the tax measures, but combined
- Today, we launched a major report documenting socioeconomic inequalities over the past twenty years in Scotland as part of the @HealthFdn independent review of health inequalities in Scotland
- The relationship between referendums and economic volatility: Scotland 2014 fraserofallander.org/2017/04/07/ref…
