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In the first of three blogs focusing on imbalance in the UK’s economy our Director, Ben Gardiner, takes a look at spatial imbalance and productivity. We find that London pulls away from the other UK regions in terms of productivity and that the regional productivity diverge...

It is nearly four years since the inception of the Northern Powerhouse. Has the performance gap between the Greater South East and the rest of England narrowed?  In short, no. Recent newspaper articles such as the following refer to the persistence of the gap between the nor...

In his second guest blogpost Ron Martin, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Cambridge explores whether the productivity of Britain’s northern cities would improve by substantially expanding their size, or seeking to merge them into a single very large city.  O...

By Ron Martin, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Cambridge In his budget speech (24 November, 2017), the Chancellor of the Exchequer made much of the need to raise national productivity. Since 2007, and the onset of the financial crisis, productivity growth in t...