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City Relationships
The City Relationships research programme was carried out
between October 2008 and November 2009 by the Work Foundation,
Centre for Cities and SURF, commissioned and sponsored by the
Northern Way and the Department of Communities and Local
Government.
The research aimed to test a hypothesis derived from previous research
that stronger and more complementary economic relationships
between towns and cities in the North of England would generate
higher levels of sustainable economic growth and
development.
The project examined the economic relationships between the
five most significant economic centres in the North - Leeds,
Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield - and selected
cities and towns nearby, looking in particular at labour market
linkages and the connections between businesses. It considered
barriers to more complementary economic relationships and what
public policy might do to foster them.
At a time when the public policy environment is focused on
recovery from the current recession, and when there are
emerging changes in the tools available to agencies and
institutions at sub-national level working on economic
development, the report aimed to generate insights about how
these tools could secure better economic outcomes for places
across the North of England.
The seven reports published through the research programme
include:
In addition, there are five supplementary data annexes
supporting the 5 City Region reports available
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