Ed Balls and Dan Turner were invited to write in this week’s The Economist’s ‘By Invitation’ slot, as part of a suite of articles on the UK’s constitutional future. The piece, based on our research to date, argues that there is a link between political centralisation and regional economic inequality in the UK, and that…
Coverage of “Why hasn’t UK regional policy worked?”
This week saw the launch of our second working paper, Why hasn’t UK regional policy worked?. We were pleased to launch the paper on Wednesday evening at a Strand Group event at King’s College London, joined by what Politico dubbed “The Panel to End All Panels” of Lord Mandelson, Lord Sainsbury, Dame Melanie Dawes, George…
New release: “Why hasn’t UK regional policy worked? The views of leading practitioners.”
We are pleased to announce the publication of our newest working paper, which you can access here via the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Abstract UK domestic policy – especially in England – in recent years has focused on regional inequalities in economic outcomes and public service delivery, which are tied to a political…
National Infrastructure Commission and Department for Transport draw on our research
Our first paper, Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention, has been cited in several major pieces of UK policy-making over the past month. First, the Government’s Long-Term Plan for Towns, published on 1 October 2023, cited our findings around the long lasting effects of deindustrialisation on parts of the…
Media reaction to “Tackling the UK’s regional inequality”
Our first paper, Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention, received widespread coverage upon publication this week. You can read Martin Wolf’s coverage in his weekly Financial Times column here, and Larry Elliot’s column in the Guardian here. The authors also published an Opinion piece in the Times Red…
Levelling up can still work: here’s how
The full paper can accessed here, with a summary article on VoxEU here. Below is an Opinion piece originally published in The Times Red Book on 6 March 2023. By Ed Balls, Anna Stansbury, and Dan Turner In this month’s Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will set out his long-term vision for UK growth and ‘levelling-up’…