The recent focus on struggling high streets ignores the success of well-performing city centres and misdiagnoses the real problem: a lack of high-skill jobs
As a decade of austerity comes to end, this year’s edition of Cities Outlook looks at how city spending has changed.
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The creation of metro mayors for England’s most populated cities was the biggest shake-up of local government in a generation
To create sustainable, long-term economic outcomes for people with few or no qualifications, cities need to focus on attracting high-skilled businesses
Join us in Derby for a free public event to discuss what the end of austerity means for the city
Join us in Liverpool for a free public event to discuss what the end of austerity means for the city
The full audio from the launch event of Cities Outlook 2019, with a focus on the impact of austerity on UK cities over the last decade
What does anti-EU sentiment look like across the 28 member countries, and how might this be addressed?
Find out what cities are doing to promote inclusive growth using our case study library.
How cities in the UK and beyond are making the most of their policymaking and fiscal powers
The 'long tail' of low productivity firms will not be answer to the productivity puzzle, instead the focus should be on the firms that export goods and services locally and beyond.
The second in our briefing series looks at the geography of the UK economy and why this matters for the industrial strategy.
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