Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Senior Analyst Anthony Breach and Researcher Matthew Coombes to discuss Centre for Cities’ recent report, All Cylinders: the Role of the Midlands...
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Senior Analyst Anthony Breach and Researcher Matthew Coombes to discuss Centre for Cities’ recent report, All Cylinders: the Role of the Midlands Engine in the UK Economy, which shows that the Midlands economy is largely urban and explores the kinds of economic activity happening in the region.
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Urban economies essential for driving growth in the Midlands Engine are underperforming, and low productivity is to blame.
Five key lessons for regional and national policymakers to level up the local economies of the Midlands Engine.
Cities have a vital role to play in tackling the region’s persistent productivity gap that costs the Midlands £18 billion annually.
In advance of the Government’s forthcoming Levelling Up White Paper, this briefing sets out what the levelling up agenda should aim to achieve and a strategy for achieving it.
