Where next for levelling up?: Five challenges for governments looking to address regional inequality
This short paper highlights five key challenges that any government seeking to reduce regional inequalities will need to address.
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The promise to ‘level up’ the country was central to the Conservatives’ 2019 manifesto, and was the latest in a long line of government commitments to tackle longstanding regional inequalities. A series of Institute for Government and Policy@Manchester roundtables explored the progress of levelling up – and the policy and structural changes needed to make genuine and identifiable progress in reducing regional inequalities.