economic development

  • RESEARCH

    Due North: Report of the Inquiry on Health Equity for the North

    15th September 2014
    The report details evidence on trends in health inequalities and flowing from this provides a set of recommendations – based on...
  • RESEARCH

    The future of LEPs: the small business perspective

    3rd September 2014
    This report, produced in partnership with the Federation of Small Businesses, examines the progress made by LEPs and sets out a wa...
  • Voodoo economic development

    I have written elsewhere that within local government, there is an emerging crisis in local economic thinking, policy and strategy. I believe, the government has some fragments of great ideas, and is straining to be radical, but its shrouded in austerity, there is slow progress and a disjuncture in logic. It’s voodoo economic development!