Event Summary – Achieving Levelling-up: the Structures and Processes Needed
November 2020 – Ben Glover, LIPSIT Researcher
On 18th November 2020, the LIPSIT (Local Institutions, Productivity, Sustainability and Inclusivity Trade-offs) project – a collaboration between the cross-party think tank Demos and the Universities of Birmingham, Cardiff, Surrey and Warwick – launched new research. It finds there is zero chance of ‘levelling-up’ working without significant changes to the current system. Continue reading…
The Complexity of Local Government in England: The West Midlands’ Rubik’s Cube
September 2020 – Dr Charlotte Hoole, LIPSIT Co-Investigator
Originally published on the City REDI Blog
Back in 2006, the then head of communications at the New Local Government Network was quoted in the Guardian as saying “the complexity of local government is something that even councillors can find perplexing and for those on the outside it can seem more puzzling than a Rubik’s cube”. Continue reading…
UK Regional Productivity Variations and What Might be Driving These
February 2020 – Dr Charlotte Hoole, LIPSIT Co-Investigator
Over the past decade, the gap between the UK’s productivity performance and other OECD countries has been widening. This is due to unusually slow growth rates in UK productivity since 2010 in spite of rising employment, leading to what has been termed the UK’s ‘productivity puzzle’. Continue reading…
