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General Election 2019

Kathrin Enenkel

More state more growth? The economic implications of moving parts of the government to the North.

Andrew Carter

Centre for Cities' Chief Executive Andrew Carter outlines what the Government needs to know before it can boost productivity.

Paul Swinney

Addressing the underperformance of big cities and city centres should be at the top of Andrea Leadsom’s priorities to deal with the UK’s lagging productivity.

Paul Swinney

A new academic paper claims that cities make businesses no more productive than other parts of the country. But is it all that is seems?

Anthony Breach

Encouraging innovation should be central to the Government’s Industrial Strategy. But who should foot the bill for interventions in innovation? This is a question highlighted in our recent work on the Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Park.

Paul Swinney

Many areas will no doubt look to the West Midlands’ newly published local industrial strategy as a template, but they must identify what the barriers to high productivity businesses are in their own areas if they are to be useful

Paul Swinney

Focusing on the ‘everyday economy’ will not deliver the productivity boost that the Industrial Strategy hopes to achieve

Paul Swinney

Burnley’s economic performance highlights the dangers of over-reliance on traditional manufacturing

Paul Swinney

While arguments rage about how the Stronger Towns Fund came about and the size of it, the more fundamental question is what should it be spent on?