Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog outlines plans for the next phase of school investment.
Tag: Finance
UK Spending Review – implications for Scotland’s Budget
Reading Time: 3 minutesA look at the implications of the UK Spending Review for Scotland’s Budget.
Input-output models and increasing economic output
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog explores how SPICe use Scottish input-output models for queries about economic output growth.
Income tax: correcting for earlier optimism
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post gives an overview of the recent publication of Scottish income tax figures.
Evolution and dilution in devolution: economic policy in Scotland
Reading Time: 8 minutesA look at Scotland’s economic policy landscape since devolution.
Taxing times: the perils of fiscal devolution
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat influences the size of the Scottish budget now that a range of tax powers have been devolved?
Scotland’s fiscal outlook: possible large reconciliations ahead
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog considers the Scottish Government’s latest Fiscal Outlook.
Scotland’s population: Growing more slowly and ageing
Reading Time: 4 minutesNational Records of Scotland (NRS) published their Mid-2018 Population Estimates for Scotland on 25 April. They showed that the total Scottish population had reached a
Ending child poverty: the challenge ahead
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe latest picture on child poverty The Scottish Government’s latest poverty statistics show that – on the most commonly used measure of poverty – child
The (budgetary) times they are a changin’: 20 years of devolved budgets
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs part of the programme to mark 20 years since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, SPICe will publish twenty “20 year” blog posts on