How will we know when we have levelled up?
Levelling up should have three key metrics
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What levelling up really means: changing the geography of knowledge
This briefing uses the theory of economic complexity to show how the economies of Britain’s cities and large towns have developed over time and sets out the implications for how the Government should approach its levelling up agenda.
Levelling up rural towns: Why not every rural town can become a Tunbridge Wells
Why investment in rural towns should focus on skills, health and social infrastructure.
City Minutes
City Minutes: Exploring the cities versus towns debateSenior Analyst Kathrin Enenkel on the relationship between UK cities and towns and the implications this has for people and policy makers.
The levelling up dilemma: innovation here, there or everywhere?
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Why large French and German cities perform better than their British neighbours
Access to workers, and the skills of those workers, are two big differences between large cities in the UK, France and Germany.
Is London too successful?
Some argue that imbalances in the UK result from London’s overperformance, rather than the underperformance of the country’s next largest cities. Making comparisons with European cities suggests this isn’t the case.
What does agglomeration mean in British cities?
It is well known that British cities do not get more productive as they get bigger. But a very different picture emerges when looking at city centres with implications for levelling up.
The levelling up dilemma: productivity, employment and wellbeing
Senior Policy Officer Julieta Cuneo picks out key insights from our latest event exploring the dilemmas and tensions present within the levelling up agenda.
Does Nissan provide a model for levelling up?
Red wall MPs point to the success of Sunderland’s Nissan plant as the model the current Government should replicate, but almost 40 years on the city is still in need of being ‘levelled up’.