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Fast Growth Cities
By
Maire Williams
| 8 March 2016
Fast Growth Cities
By
Maire Williams
| 8 March 2016
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Introduction
Why do Fast Growth Cities matter?
Figure Highly productive
Figure Table 1: GVA per worker
Figure High tax generation
Figure Table 2: Economy taxes generated and Government spending
Figure Increasing employment and high skilled jobs
Figure Figure 1: Employment
Figure Figure 2: Private sector jobs growth
Figure Figure 3: Private sector KIBS jobs
Figure High and increasing wages
Figure Figure 4: Average weekly earnings
Figure Business entrepreneurialism & innovation
Figure Figure 5: Business starts and closures per 10,000 of the population
Figure Attractive places to live
Figure Figure 6: Population growth
Key challenges constraining growth
Figure Increasing transport congestion
Figure Constrained housing supply and increasing unaffordability
Figure Figure 8: Housing affordability, 2015
Figure Figure 9: Growth in housing stock
Figure Low skills, skills shortages and retention
Figure Figure 10: Proportion of working age population with high level qualifications and no formal qualifications
Conclusions
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7: Commuting into the Fast Growth Cities
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