The North and Midlands underperforms because its export base performs poorly. If policy is to improve prosperity in this part of the country then it needs to remove the barriers that stop export businesses from investing.
Improving living standards requires raising the skills floor, and not just prioritising the highest earners, to drive economic growth and prosperity everywhere.
Big cities play a central role in generating wages in their regions, but their underperformance limits how much prosperity they generate.
This blog looks at how the Green Belt impacts the scale and location of housebuilding in England, as well as the potential opportunities for reform, using data from our ‘Restarting Housebuilding’ research series.
The Government will soon publish a white paper on devolution in England. This is likely to be the latest staging post in England's gradual move to having more power held at the level that an...
The UK doesn’t just have a national housing crisis, but there is a housing crisis in our most unaffordable cities. How can homes be built where they are needed?
As well as providing a deep dive into the latest economic data on the UK’s cities and largest towns, Cities Outlook 2024 looks back at how cities have fared since 2010.
With 2024 a likely election year, this year's Cities Outlook looks back at how cities have fared since 2010 and where the economy would be today had pre-2010 trends continued.
The UK economy has flatlined, and all parts of the country are suffering. This won’t change unless productivity growth improves.
In a two-part series of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes podcast, Chief Executive Andrew Carter and Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney explore the findings and implications of the Centre’s annual snapshot of urban economies across the UK.
No part of the UK has escaped the impact of the flatlining of the UK economy since 2010, according to new analysis by Centre for Cities in Cities Outlook 2024.