Ambition 2020
Ambition 2020: World Class Skills and Jobs is our annual assessment, to the four UK nations, of our progress towards becoming world class in productivity, employment and skills by 2020. This means being amongst the top eight OECD countries.
We need this benchmark because in a rapidly developing world there are increasing competitive pressures internationally due to the effects of globalisation, ongoing technological developments, and changes in consumer demand. This sets enormous opportunities and challenges to which we must respond if we are to secure future economic success.
Ambition 2020 provides a robust independent account of economic and skills developments. Fundamentally too, it enables Government to work with business to provide a compelling vision for the future and strategic leadership in the development of the economy, to take stock of ongoing changes, and to take corrective action as necessary to stimulate economic growth, transformation and renewal. In making this assessment, we have developed a strategic framework to provide a basket of indicators which connects various dimensions of the agenda surrounding Ambition 2020. This also allows us to measure and track progress in productivity, employment and skills over time and, critically, to benchmark the UK’s position internationally with other leading economies.
View a more detailed version of the framework. (JPG, 1.3 Mb)
2010 publications
2009 publications
