Neil McInroy

Neil McInroy is chief executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies

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Recent stories

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  How cities worldwide tackle hard times

  Visiting six centres around the globe, Neil McInroy sees at first hand how local government helps the local economy

  23 July 2009

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  The need for local economic activism

  Neil McInroy believes we can learn from the experiences of local economies in the 1980s

  19-May-2009

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  Changing the flow of power

  The downturn is a chance for local government to reverse the flow of power to Whitehall by innovating through local initiatives, says Neil McInroy.

  24-Mar-2009

• Risky Business!

  5-Mar-2009

• Unemployment, unemployment, unemployment!

  18-Feb-2009

• Local economic identity check

  11-Feb-2009

• A shocking state of affairs

  20-Jan-2009

• Local matters

  12-Jan-2009

• Thinking about production

  22-Dec-2008

• An ordered state of local economics

  12-Dec-2008

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Recent blog posts

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  Local Government needs flexible geographies

  In economic terms we need flexibility which allows local authority areas to work together and do different things at various geographic scales. For this to happen, we cannot get so hung up about fixed institutions at specific scales

  Neil McInroy | 22-Jan-2010

  city region, CLES, Conservatives, economic development, GDP, growth, Kent County Council, Leeds city region, lgc plus, Liberal Democrats, Localisation

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  Snuggle Cities

  We cannot let city centres suck the economic identity out of our local ‘secondary’ places, or let the economic development growth model of the city centre weaken local economic regeneration.

  Neil McInroy | 22-Dec-2009

  Bradford, Bury, CBD, city region, CLES, economic development, growth, Leeds city region, Local Markets, Localisation, Manchester city region

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  The local state we are in

  The local state we are in - requires local economic thinking to start paying attention to inequality, poverty, low income and worklessness and families and communities who are suffering. Cameron’s speech gets part of this in his praise for and call for ‘helping communities, families and individuals’ in a ‘big society’. However real change on poverty requires coordinated place based action. Mr Cameron - we need a brave and ‘big’ local state to do this.

  Neil McInroy | 17-Nov-2009

  CLES, economic development, placeshaping
• Doing ‘more for less’? We are going to need more!

  Neil McInroy | 29-Oct-2009 Comments (1)

• Local economic assessments should be intelligence rich

  Neil McInroy | 15-Oct-2009

• Local government leading the innovative way

  Neil McInroy | 6-Oct-2009 Comments (2)

• Local Government practice should be the new environmentalism

  Neil McInroy | 21-Sep-2009

• Tackling inequality: the means to a sustainable future

  Neil McInroy | 25-Jun-2009

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