Creon Butler examines the UK’s economic position, highlighting slow productivity growth, fiscal constraints and the importance of sustained infrastructure investment. He outlines options for revising debt rules, attracting private capital and reforming benefits to create space for growth-focused spending.
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Creon Butler leads the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House. He joined the institute in 2019, since when he has written and published on a wide range of global economic policy issues, including the interaction between macroeconomic policy and climate change, sovereign debt distress, the challenge of funding global health priorities, and the long-term implications for the international economic system of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Before joining Chatham House, Creon served in the UK Cabinet Office as director for international economic affairs in the National Security Secretariat and G7/G20 ‘sous sherpa’, advising the UK Prime Minister on global economic policy issues.
