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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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Place Planning for serendipity

I like grappling with contemporary place ailments: no jobs, derelict site or dying high street. ...

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

The ragged-trousered optimists

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

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Budget 2012: steady as we go nowhere for poorest places

This Budget is mostly about incentives and competition for funds. It reveals a government which ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

If you don’t like capitalism and don’t like socialism, what do you want?

Ted Howard, showed us that a new economy and a new destiny for the poorest ...

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Economic false hopes hinder a better future

The harsh reality that many areas face and which they must confront is that they ...

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Lenin 31, Louis Vuitton 3

I was in Moscow last week. In red square, Moscow, Louis Vuitton was open ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

It’s time to just muddle through

The time for silly caricatures must pass. The public sector is not in the main ...