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Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

LEPs need to develop resilient local economic futures

For Leps, their strongest potential asset is their ability to provide a means by which ...

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One giant step for humankind

We need a greater recognition in public policy that society is an integrated co-production between ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

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 ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Time to reset economic development

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

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The social face of local economic development

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

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Building a more decentralised economy

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

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The green economy – our big opportunity

A green economy is not a sub-set of the economy at large – our whole ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

What should local economic development do now?

While policymakers flip-flop it’s up to local areas themselves to take the bull by the ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The ragged-trousered optimists

Like the workers in Robert Tressel’s book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, who threw themselves into ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Book review: Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Where the book succeeds it does so brilliantly. As a thought experiment, as a way ...