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Good Local Economics

Pilots, pathfinders and prototypes

It is about addressing some of the questions about experience, fracture and culture. It would ...

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It’s what you know that counts in the information age

Public sector organisations have to make the most of the vastly reduced resources at their ...

Communities Good Local Economics

Welfare reform: taking benefits from addicts

For many of these men, even those who have managed to slowly get on top ...

Communities Good Local Economics

A path back to work

Early intervention can play a key role in helping people to return to work after ...

Finance Local Government

Prevention: making common sense become common practice

Not only is common sense not yet common practice, but we rarely stop to look ...

Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Never mind Plan B, let’s get Plan A right

It seems we’ve reached the point of advocating something better described as ‘desperate capitalism’: a ...

Communities Economic Development Finance Local Government

Development banks for the local economy

Nick Harriss sets out the case for a new breed of financial institution – one ...

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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 ...

Finance

Payment by results: ends, means and need

The government’s wide-ranging ambitions for introducing payment by results (PbR) regimes across a swathe of ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

Why healthy, wealthy southerners get the most welfare benefits

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