Crafting a solution to lackluster U.K. economic growth could land someone a 100,000 pound ($130,000) prize in a new competition launched on Wednesday. A week after official forecasters predicted the U.K. won’t expand faster than 1.6 percent over the next five years and as Brexit looms, the Institute for Public Policy Research announced the search for “radical ideas” to bolster growth. The think tank said the prize was likely the world’s third biggest in economics. It was announced in tandem with the release of a poll which showed only 23 percent of respondents were confident that the government could find new ways to ... (full story)