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’…