📊 Data update: The Penn World Table is an extensive database that helps us understand long-run, global trends in economic growth, working hours, productivity, and living standards. We’ve updated 17 of our charts using the latest release.

At the heart of the UK's geographic divides are 'exporting' industries like software or manufacturing. Their performance drives local wages + the national economy. The industrial strategy needs to focus on helping exporting industries grow locally so they can succeed internationally.

Centre for Cities@centreforcities.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢#CitiesOutlook2025, our annual health check of UK cities economic performance, is out now. 🏙️🔎2025 needs to be a year of growth delivery by the Government. What must policy do to boost wages across the country? Read the report 👇 https://buff.ly/3DPaUp0

We mutter a lot about housing in the UK. BUT IT'S 44% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE OECD AVERAGE. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

NEW REPORTS | Restarting housebuilding🏘️ These new reports focus on private and public housebuilding, using local-level data from the last 80 years to analyse the reforms needed to meet the government's 1.5m housebuilding target. Read the full reports👇 www.centreforcities.org/housing/

The housing crisis - Centre for Cities

The UK doesn’t have a national housing crisis, but there is a housing crisis in our most unaffordable cities. How can homes be built where they are needed?

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La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

According to The Times the government will publish a White Paper on English devolution in the coming weeks which will set out plans for the “biggest overhaul of local government in more than 50 years”. 1/3 #LocalGov 🧵

"Now Harold Wilson’s Labour government had a taste for reorganisation. In June 1966, it appointed John Redcliffe-Maud – civil servant, academic, baron – to rethink things from the bottom up, and to come up with a system that didn't rely on country boundaries first set in the age of King Alfred."

Redcliffe-Maud: The greatest local government reorganisation we never had

Oh don’t tell me you aren’t interested.

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