Budget 2023: why the UK’s fiscal watchdog does not share the chancellor’s optimism: Sean Aidan Calderbank/Shutterstock UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt confidently described his first budget of 2023 as a “budget for growth”. He went on to offer a fairly upbeat assessment of both economic performance and future prospects, arguing: “The declinists are wrong and the …
Emergency budget announcement: expert reaction to new UK chancellor’s attempt to calm financial markets: Newly installed UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has unveiled a raft of changes to Kwasi Kwarteng’s September 23 mini-budget, which essentially amounted to a rollback on most of its headline points. The September mini-budget, which included £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts, …
Why Kenya’s decision to appoint ‘corporate’ chancellors won’t fix universities: Egerton University chancellor Narendra Raval – a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist — presides over a graduation ceremony in 2019. Courtesy/Egerton.ac.ke The choice of chancellors appointed to head universities is a good indicator of the direction in which the state seeks to steer its institutions. It …