Paola Buonadonna talks to Dr Monique Ebell about the difficult trade-offs the UK is faced with in the coming year as it negotiates a new relationship with the EU. This is the third of series of podcasts looking ahead to economic and social developments to keep an eye on in 2018,

In the second of a series of podcasts looking ahead to economic and social developments to keep an eye on in 2018 Paola Buonadonna and NIESR Associate Research Director Heather Rolfe discuss the latest agreement on EU citizens rights post-Brexit and the future of EU immigration.

In the first of a series of podcasts looking ahead to economic and developments to keep an eye on in 2018 Paola Buonadonna and senior NIESR economist Arno Hantzsche discuss what to expect from the ECB in and the likelihood of reform in the Euro area.

Britain's productivity puzzle is turning into a nightmare, with a further decade of slow growth predicted by some. Paola Buonadonna speaks to NIESR Associate Research Director Monique Ebell about a report she recently co-authored, which could provide a piece of the jigsaw.

Is the West doomed to a 'new normal' of low growth? And what is the role played by skills and other intangible assets in driving productivity performance? Paola Buonadonna meets Jakob Madsen, Rebecca Riley and Geoff Mason who presented their latest ESRC-backed research at at the recent LLAKES conference in Assisi.

Dr Monique Ebell, an experts on international trade at NIESR welcomes the Government's suggestion of an interim period during which Britain would remain in the EU Customs Union post-Brexit, but asks : what then?

Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Senior Economist Rebecca Piggott about the complex, and somewhat contradictory trends she is witnessing in the UK labour market.

In the run-up to the General Election of June 2017 Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Research Director Peter Dolton about the state of NHS financing and what the three main parties aim to do about it.

In the run-up to the General Election of June 2017 Paola Buonadonna talks to Amit Kara, Head of UK Macroeconomic Forecasting about the state of infrastructure in the UK: is it time to build?

In the run-up to the General Election of June 2017 Paola Buonadonna talks to NIESR Associate Reserach Director Heather Rolfe about perceptions and reality in the debate about immigration.