Summary In 2023, the global total fertility rate (TFR) fell to 2.2 children per woman, below the population replacement rate … Continue reading "Mind The Fertility Gap: Why people stopped having babie ...

Foreword In the early 2010s, a number of campaign groups made the case for the introduction of what they called … Continue ...

The IEA is partnering with Cambridge Global Connect to offer research internships to international students passionate about economics and public policy. Through this initiative, the IEA is expanding ...

Kevin served the IEA with distinction for twenty-three years on the Board of Managing Trustees. He was a dedicated and committed trustee whose scrutiny of our affairs was both fearless and ...

Our week-long sixth form Future Thought Leaders programme provides early exposure to advanced economic discussions through lectures, expert debates, and career insights from academia and politics.

This article was first published on the Institute of Economic Affairs Substack. Official figures recently published by HMRC indicate a huge rise in illicit tobacco sales in the UK since 2021. The ...

I was recently watching the video “Are Populists Destroying Democracy?” on the IEA’s Youtube channel, in which the IEA’s Editorial Director Kristian Niemietz interviewed Swedish political scientist ...

Each year, the Government publishes international energy price comparisons. The data is sourced from the IEA and covers industrial and domestic gas and electricity prices. The latest data for 2023 was ...

What is ‘foreign aid’? Peacekeeping missions in Mali, arms for Ukraine, and hurricane relief for Caribbean islands – these are three recent examples of UK ‘aid’ that do not qualify as such in terms of ...

The overview highlights the academic consensus on harmful consequences. Most studies (56 out of 65) find that rent controls succeed in lowering rents for controlled units, as intended. However, 14 out ...

Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. An increasingly prominent anti-capitalist narrative claims that empire and ...