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Do ‘good’ mayors generate economic growth? Or is it economic growth that creates the conditions for ‘good’ mayors? ... International evidence is mixed and inconclusive. It demonstrates a variety of economic outcomes associated with a variety of

14 Feb 2019: The Economic Performance of Britain’s Cities: Patterns, Processes and Policy Implications 1. ... development, and the contribution they make to national economic prosperity. Yet in the.

In particular, it highlights the need for the strategy to be truly place-based, in order to better fulfill its aims of increasing national economic growth. ... This requires an appropriate nation-wide geographical network of regional or urban-region

This special session at the 2017 AAG in Boston aims to explore these city evolutions in the context of economic change. ... economic evolution of cities on a global scale, and ask what this means for policy.

the evolving economic performance of cities, particularly given the ongoing debates over structural specialisation versus diversity. ... This paper has been submitted to the Journal of Economic Geography. Related posts:.

20 Sep 2016: propositions from four such perspectives: international development theory. 4. (IDT), regional science and urban economics, (RSUE), the ‘new economic. ... Metcalfe J. S., Foster J. and Ramlogan R. (2006) Adaptive economic growth, Cambridge Journal of

23 Feb 2017: www.cityevolutions.org.uk. Four key findings on city economic change from 1971 to 2014. ... Overall, the economic performance of cities has varied substantially. The data also shows that:. •

20 Sep 2016: At the same time, one can point to successful cities that have diversified economic structures. ... Figure 9: Relative Economic Specialisation (Structural Dissimilarity). Across British Cities, 1981 and 2013.

21 Apr 2017: disaggregation). Indeed, city economic structures have converged over the past forty years (Figure 5). ... enjoyed the fastest rates of economic growth, nor highest productivity, over the past 40 years.