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Let the industrial north prosper again

Britain’s industrial communities can also be part of the solution to narrowing the widening north-south ...

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What’s the role of the voluntary sector in local economies?

For me, the big lesson from the growing evidence base is something ridiculously grand about ...

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10 Ideas for Change: Community finance

Finance is at the heart of local change. The most resilient local economies are those ...

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Q & A with Mike Toye: Building a new local economics, Canadian-style

The Canadian Community Economic Development Network unites organisations committed to transformative place-based social and economic ...

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How to… finance social enterprise and small business

The Ulster Community Investment Trust is plugging the gap as government retreats and banks withdraw ...

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Poverty in suburbia

Suburbs (and the poverty within them) warrant greater attention, not least from ministers and Whitehall ...

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Learning from the US Community Reinvestment Act

Low income areas in the US are no longer 'redlined' by banks, thanks to the ...

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Why data is key to effective community finance

What is clear is that although release of this data has been a long time ...

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Leps should focus beyond GDP growth

Pursuing short-term economic growth at all costs defeats the purpose and, while it's tempting to ...

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Public spending: it ain’t just about efficiencies

Procurement should not be a narrow corporate function restricted to local government, nor is localism ...