News


12 Jan 2012	SMEs report generic labour and skills shortages even in recession : NEETs numbers growing in traditional industrial areas
12 Jan 2012	Ill thought through local finance development will damage regions : FSB promotes small business bonus scheme
12 Jan 2012	A quarter of small businesses struggling to raise cash â€“ but few need it for growth. Finance for medium sized firms critical for jobs growth â€“ but so is demand
01 Sep 2011	Plan A+ or Plan B for a flatlining economy; When is a recession not a recession - yet?
31 May 2011	Entrepreneurs more important than we thought? Or never has so much be owed to so few?
31 May 2011	Do not bank on SMEs for growth Loan demand responds to supply and price
31 May 2011	Can Bankrupt Britain become a Big Society? Matching reality with the vision.
31 Dec 2010	British manufacturing is growing to rebalance the UK economy
31 Dec 2010	CSR job cuts understated - but jobs growth required seems within historical normsÂ
31 Dec 2010	Rebalancing policies important to rebalancing the UK economy? The longer term perspective â€“ seven policy challenges
31 Dec 2010	Rural living costs 20% more
16 Oct 2010	Confusion over needs, purpose and structure of Local Economic Development Training provision as important as business guidance
24 Apr 2010	The BUDGET and Business Free markets vs. state intervention on investment â€“ heads or tails?
24 Apr 2010	Ups and downs of the labour market, losers and losers Employers' confidence increasing â€“ but the damage has been done
24 Apr 2010	Even knowledge based sectors contract
24 Apr 2010	Competitiveness - Sectors performance matter more than mix Are we applying evidence based policies?
18 Jan 2010	Unemployment rises in deprived areas â€“ as bankers consider bonuses The imbalanced economy?
18 Jan 2010	What price a structural shift from a financial services to low-carbon economy
18 Jan 2010	Social enterprises can be recession-busters
18 Jan 2010	Northern cities can succeed sustainably
17 Aug 2009	Supporting creative industries
17 Aug 2009	Recovering from recession â€“ local vs. structural action
03 Aug 2009	New Start - News special offer
03 Aug 2009	Skills gaps for place shaping and sustainable communities
03 Aug 2009	Economic realities taking over planning and regeneration
03 Aug 2009	Local interventions matter in tackling worklessness
15 Apr 2009	RDAs investments cost-effective, even though returns on physical projects long term
15 Apr 2009	Growth alone is bad for people and communities or Sustainability is a wider and more complex subject than one thought!
15 Apr 2009	Changing deckchairs on the economic development Titanic? Smoke Mirrors and Disjointed incrementalism
15 Apr 2009	Improved Planning for Rural Economic Development
16 Mar 2009	Jobs growth by 2017 predicted Silver lining or false dawn?
16 Mar 2009	Culture at the coast
16 Mar 2009	Large Local Firms and Skilled Labour matter
16 Mar 2009	New solutions, new challenges - adapting to structural and cyclical changes Physical, economic and social regeneration - preparing for the upturn
11 Jan 2009	Hyper Active Labour Market Policies - Councils required to tackle worklessness together
08 Jan 2009	The diagnosis and treatment of disparities in United Kingdom regional economic performance: a critique
08 Jan 2009	Helping firms or sectors to survive? bail-out of the struggling Indian-owned Jaguar Land Rover.
08 Jan 2009	Economic warning ignored?: do we ever learn?
08 Jan 2009	Making any difference? The North-South divide grows
21 Nov 2008	Social enterprise – more potential than achieved or less impact than aspired to?
21 Nov 2008	Plan driven policy commitments trumped by international investment promise
21 Nov 2008	Devolution’s Economic Dividends Postponed
28 Jul 2008	Worklessness is NOT a local problem
28 Jul 2008	Realising Hidden Innovation as the solution to UK's productivity gap?
28 Jul 2008	UK policy may prolong uncertainty in regeneration and commercial property markets
28 Jul 2008	Effects on the local economy with a house building slow down
21 Jun 2008	UK Biofuel Policy: Economic Opportunity or Ecological Threat?
30 May 2008	Regeneration - How do we know its working?
30 May 2008	Is continual change of business support infrastructure contributing to the simplification agenda?
30 May 2008	To what extent does partnership contribute to economic development, effectiveness, efficiency or democracy?
30 May 2008	Business Improvement Districts (BID) & Business Rate Supplement (BRS)
04 Mar 2008	Planning to support economic development - opportunity or threat?
04 Mar 2008	Increasing the UK employment rate to 80% Ready for Work
04 Mar 2008	How regeneration can beat the property slump Chris Brown, CX Igloo, Regeneration & Renewal, 8 February 2008
08 Jan 2008	Britain is one city region - London! So invest in success?
07 Jan 2008	Jobless Mix
06 Jan 2008	Review of Economic Development & Regeneration
04 Jan 2008	Poor people, poor areas or poor policy and delivery?
22 Jul 2007	Review of Sub-national Economic Development and Regeneration
22 Jul 2007	Poverty and Wealth across Britain 1968 to 2005
22 Jul 2007	In Work, Better Off : Next Steps to Full Employment
01 Jul 2007	Developing the North in British Columbia