Influential Research
In the mid-1990s, the IPPR was best known for its Commission on Social Justice, which provided the basis for many of the policies of the New Labour government that came to power in 1997, including the New Deal. One of IPPR's first policy ideas was congestion charging which was subsequently introduced by Ken Livingstone. Child Trust Funds were first conceived by the IPPR in 2000 and were subsequently adopted by the government in 2005.
The IPPR is a founding member and the acting secretariat of the Global Climate Network, an alliance of influential think-tanks and research institutes working on climate change policy in nine countries, including the USA, China, India and South Africa.
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