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Ideas for Change: A Local Endowment Fund

The philanthropists of the past invested in the shared assets and common wealth of a ...

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Philanthropy goes local

As public funds diminish, philanthropy is returning to its roots and focusing on local issues. ...

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Economics and governance for city bounce

Cities with strong mutual networks and relationships are more able to bounce back from shocks ...

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Are we letting a good crisis go to waste?

To develop a progressive local political economy, we have a job to do. The neo-liberal ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Regional growth fund jobs: Strangled by red tape?

The regional growth fund was aimed at kick-starting private enterprise and rebalancing the economy. But ...

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Book review: Local Dollars, Local Sense

There is an investment apartheid in the United States. A market failure that, by implication, ...

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Making money local

In his latest book, Local Dollars, Local Sense, Michael Shuman makes the case for local ...

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How to… create resilient local communities

Resilient communities have resilient, co-produced institutions at their heart, argues Julian Dobson.

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How cities can reduce poverty through local growth

It’s time for cities to move away from orthodox approaches to economic development and prioritise ...

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Heseltine slows drift in economic development

To see this as 'progressive' is merely to reveal poverty of thinking and expectation. ...