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Tackling the UK’s regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-03)
For most of the 20th century, inequality in GDP per capita between UK regions – while not insignificant – was relatively low by European standards (Rosés and Wolf 2018). In the 1980s and 1990s, however, regional economic ...
Why Hasn't UK Regional Policy Worked? The views of leading practitioners
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-10)
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 ‘geography of discontent’ that emerged in ...
A Growth Policy to Close Britain's Regional Divides: What Needs to be Done
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2024-02)
Britain has huge geographic inequalities in economic outcomes, health, education and social mobility. While these have existed for centuries, they have widened in recent years. These divides, both between and within regions, ...