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Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Macro growth must be blended with micro growth

We need a blended approach: of national macro growth and local micro growth; of infrastructure ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Local economic policy must get social

National economic policy is in the grip of a narrow and at times sacrosanct neo-liberal ...

Local Government

Public service reform and citizens – all action and no traction?

We can and we must do more to make engagement work. If we don’t, agendas ...

Communities Good Local Economics

Reverse engineering public services

A frustrating point has been reached in public service reform. We’ve finally grasped the importance ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Mass collaboration has come of age

Whether we examine the highly collaborative forms of the new digital economy, the more than ...

Communities

The iPod model of public services

This is my model for public services: incredibly simple front end ideas behind which all ...

Communities Regeneration

Searching for the ‘new new’ public management

Complex social problems and systems unfit for purpose cannot be pulled into the future from ...

Communities Housing Local Government Regeneration

Public investment needed to solve housing crisis

Since private housebuilders have recently acknowledged that it will be impossible to build 200,000 new ...

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The personal is collaborative in public services

We must make the case for the long term benefits of citizen-centric services in the ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

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 ...