inclusive growth

A social turn to the local economic growth agenda?

ur local economic approach is working for the few, not the many. A dominant ‘growth at all costs’ agenda is not delivering socially or even working particularly well for local growth. Backed by the treasury, the agenda has worked for some areas, but, overall, growth is anaemic: low wages, insecure work, and inequality. However, there is change afoot. Inclusive growth appears to be slipping onto the mainstream agenda.

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Inclusive growth: The next oxymoron?

From time to time a new phrase is coined. Sometimes the new phrase articulates a new solution, at other times it reinvigorates an old one, or – more cynically – masks it. In economic development we now have the phrase ‘inclusive growth’. Does inclusive growth represent a step change or is it just a new oxymoronic phrase for the failing cycle of growth and exclusion? Maybe it’s just semantics, a new term for the toxic ‘trickle down’?

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  • RESEARCH

    Building a new local economy: Lessons from the United States

    8th September 2015
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    This publication details the learning derived from a trip to the United States in Summer 2015 and is linked to CLES’ wider think...
  • CLES 10

    Developing a green local economy

    4th June 2015
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    This CLES 10 provides guidance for the fundamental principles that individual towns and cities can adopt to develop a greener loca...
  • RESEARCH

    The Local Double Dividend

    2nd February 2015
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    This CLES research report argues the flawed economic thinking and a Treasury economic model that has left so many parts of the UK ...
  • RESEARCH

    After Austerity: an economic plan for the North West

    5th September 2014
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    A report produced for UNISON North West by CLES highlights how austerity policies are not working in the region and points the way...