Economy Insight

About Economy Insight

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research is Britain's longest established independent research institute, founded in 1938. The vision of our founders was to carry out research to improve understanding of the economic and social forces that affect people’s lives, and the ways in which policy can bring about change. Over eighty years later, this remains central to NIESR’s ethos. We continue to apply our expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods and our understanding of economic and social issues to current debates and to influence policy.

Publisher

National Institute of Economic and Social Reseach

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Nov 2016

Latest episode

6 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Feb 2026

   How Should We Pay for Increased Defence Spending - Director's View

   An AI generated short summary of the main points of the our Director's blog, originally published on 6 February 2026 on NIESR website: https://niesr.ac.uk/blog/how-should-we-pay-increased-defence-spending

2. 

   30 Apr 2025

   Stuck in the System: Insights Into the UK Living Standards Crisis

   In this episode Social Researcher Marley Williams is joined by three Community Researchers who have conducted interviews to people in receipt of Universal Credit (UC) and/or housing benefit as part of NIESR's UKRI funded Living Standard Review 2025, sharing their insights into the main issues of the current welfare system in the UK.

3. 

   19 Aug 2024

   Unpacking The Effectiveness Of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions to Reduce Mortality

   In this episode, Freya Thomas is joined by NIESR Associate Research Director Edoardo Masset to discuss the effectiveness of the so called 'WASH' interventions, and what next in the implementations of these important packages to try to reduce mortality in the countries analyzed.

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YouTube views

455,272

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

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Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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