If all British cities were as productive as those in the Greater South East, the UK economy would be more than £200bn bigger each year. How can the Government's Industrial Strategy help places raise their game?
The UK economy has flatlined, and all parts of the country are suffering. This won’t change unless productivity growth improves.
Recently announced trailblazer devolution deals will see ‘growth zones’ established in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester Combined Authorities. Matthew Coombes makes the case for why they should be established in city centres.
Two new reports in conjunction with Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance at LSE set out what choices and trade-offs policy should make to get the cities to make the contribution they need to be making to the national economy.
Paul Swinney addresses some of the responses to our analysis of the productivity ‘long tail’
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Join Centre for Cities and LSE for the second in a new series of online events, this time discussing place-based approaches to R&D.
The UK has lost its cutting edge, with implications for growth across the country.
Research from Cities Outlook 2024 has revealed people are on average £10,200 poorer since 2010. Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney writes in the Big Issue about why a return to economic growth must be a priority, and the polices the next Government should pursue to help get there.
If the Conservatives are to be successful at the election, being able to say to voters in Burnley and Milton Keynes how the next decade is going to be more prosperous than the last is key.
The purpose of this tool is to show the scale and nature of the variation in the economic performance of cities and towns across the UK by highlighting the performance of the 63 largest urban areas on 17 indicators.
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.
The UK economy has flatlined, and all parts of the country are suffering. This won’t change unless productivity growth improves.
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.
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.
Join Centre for Cities and ForrestBrown for this panel discussion exploring how to support high-skilled innovative business across the country.