Local Government

Beware false dawns in economic policy’s winter

A new landscape for economic development is emerging. But is the shrinking of the state resulting in new thinking? Clare Goff reports

Littering the north of England, incomplete office blocks and stalled housing development schemes await their fate. Reminders of the interventionist economic policies of governments past, they haunt the landscape like relics from another era.

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A win-win agreement

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Rethinking business rates

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Will Ed correct David’s mistake on poor neighbourhoods?

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Tackling an age-old problem

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RGF bidding war exposes a flawed approach

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This daft plan was always heading for the chop

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Place-making has been hijacked by the creative and media industries

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Better off in bed?

‘I’d be better off in bed’ was a comment I heard from one of the learners at PM Training as he sat reading the newspaper the day after the vote to scrap the Education Maintenance Allowance – EMA.