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Why economic recovery may be bad news for low income households

The issue of financial inclusion and access to affordable credit, savings and other financial products ...

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The big sobriety

If we tap into the assets of communities we can make an impact in ways ...

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Time to reset economic development

We mustn’t go on with our creaking orthodox reading of economic development which is often ...

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Learning to learn

The government, for better or worse, isn’t going to establish a national urban skills strategy ...

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The social face of local economic development

Unless we have a focus on place and a context which tackles the underlying social ...

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We need ‘economic development practitioners without borders’

Knowing how precarious our economic conditions will continue to be, we should be working as ...

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Why the middle class need to demand reductions in health inequalities

Raising the pensions age will actually increase the dependency ratios in the UK. The policy ...

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Building a more decentralised economy

What are the conditions needed for local economies to be built around SMEs, social enterprises ...

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Why healthy, wealthy southerners get the most welfare benefits

The coalition government wants to cut £4bn in welfare benefits to the poorest and most ...

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Learning from the story of Business Link

What went wrong with Business Link? Elliot Forte looks back on its rise and fall ...