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Regional Growth Programme

Regional Growth Programme

IPPR North’s Regional Growth Programme is a multi-year programme of insight, ideas, and advocacy, as part of our work to reduce regional inequality and for people in all regions to live good lives and thrive.

Our mission is to build prosperous, resilient, and sustainable regional economies, offering good lives, high living standards, and access to fulfilling opportunity, all converging over time.

Our programme will shift the UK’s economic narrative to one that emphasises that where growth happens matters, for living standards, growth, and stability. We will produce bold ideas for good regional growth, and build and sustain political support for them. 

We plan to develop a new economic narrative, undertake deep public insight to deliver on the public’s priorities for regional growth and living standards, and produce the big-bet ideas across key drivers of growth like transport, innovation, skills, housing, and placemaking. We will use IPPR North’s communication and advocacy expertise to help make the change we seek a reality. 

Latest

  1. Aerial views of Manchester skyline of new skyscrapers

    Devolution that delivers: Fiscal power for regional growth

    The UK is one of the most centralised countries in the developed world, and one of the most regionally unequal.

  2. Towards a Communities Agenda 2.0

    Andy Burnham’s arrival in Downing Street creates an opportunity to go much further on the communities agenda than we’ve seen up to now. So what should more ambition look like in practice?

  3. Mirte Boot on Sky News discussing Andy Burnham and devolution

  4. A photograph from below of the grand Manchester town hall building on a sunny day against a blue sky

    On home ground: The future of devolution

    Andy Burnham has pledged to deliver “the biggest rebalancing of power the country has ever seen”. The key task for the new government is putting this into action.

Meet the team

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