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Ross Mudie

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Head of Research Analysis, @iconeighbours.bsky.social. Formerly Senior Research Analyst at the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP), research @ United Nations University-MERIT, policy @ local government.

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Ross Mudie @rmudie96.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨 NEW report!

In which we @iconeighbours.bsky.social start to unpack how the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in England have experienced change over the course of the 21st century….

www.neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/report/progr...

Progress and Pressure: Understanding economic and social change in England’s neighbourhoods - Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods

www.neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk

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Ross Mudie @rmudie96.bsky.social · 20h

This is a v good piece.

I would add as well that the general lack of interest in ideas that many centre-ground governments (including ours) have, has enabled ineffective, risk-averse managerialism to become the default position for most of our grand policy challenges.

Sleepwalking into decline.

Ross Mudie @rmudie96.bsky.social · 1d

I used to work at Betfred. For every 1 old boy using it as a social space there are 50 who are sinking every penny in their name into slots and need help.

More shared spaces, yes. No doubt. But their point is about building social capital. Betting shops do not do that anymore, they are destructive

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

All in favour of shared spaces that get people out and about and it you’re going to burn money on gambling then yeah, better to do so with a friendly person on hand. But still some incredible “men’s mental health” lobbying against a gambling tax in the Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/article/f115...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 2d

Policy #reform should renew, not just replicate.
My new @cjres.bsky.social paper with Han Wang uncovers that reforms lead to sharp rises in new #firm registrations, with the biggest gains accruing in #cities with weaker starting conditions.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

Institutional reform, path development and firm creation: evidence from China

Abstract. This paper examines whether and how government-led institutional changes can reshape regional industrial development trajectories. Using quarterl

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Ross Mudie @rmudie96.bsky.social · 2d

Several reasons why the most severe deprivation is sticky - most of todays most deprived places have not seen relative improvement for decades.

But few things have done more to make matters worse than completely obliterating council funding in the most deprived places, as we did in the 2010s

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Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social · 2d

🚨New deprivation data reveals continual deep regional divides across many areas in England.

High levels of deprivation are concentrated in many ex-industrial northern and midlands towns and coastal areas, where manufacturing and tourism industries have been lost.