The North-South Divide in Great Britain: An Examination of the Evidence

Green, Anne E.

doi:10.2307/622505

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“…In doing so it also adds a British focus to a developing literature on the links between geography and poverty in the US, and extends this literature to focus on output rather than employment growth (Fowler & Kleit, 2014;Strait, 2001;Wang, Kleit, Cover, & Fowler, 2011). It also extends the literature on uneven development in the UK (Green, 1988;Gardiner et al 2013), by showing the distributional results on growth. Most work in this area has used cross-sectional models which are vulnerable to causality problems, so we use a panel data model and instrumental variable (IV) estimators to allay concerns about endogeneity (Partridge, 2005;Partridge & Rickman, 2008b;Rupasingha & Goetz, 2011).…”

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confidence: 86%

Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

Lee

Sissons

2016

Environ Plan A

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There is growing concern in many developed economies that the benefits of economic growth are not shared equitably. This is particularly the case in the UK, where economic growth has been geographically uneven and often biased towards already affluent cities. Yet there is relatively little evidence on the relationship between growth and poverty in the UK. This paper addresses this gap with an analysis of the links between economic growth and poverty in British cities between 2000 -2008. We find little evidence that output growth reduced poverty. While growth was associated with wage increases at the top of the distribution, it was not associated with wage growth below the median. And there was no relationship between economic growth and the low skilled employment rate. These results suggest that growth in this period was far from inclusive.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Inclusive growth? The relationship between economic growth and poverty in British cities

Lee

Sissons

2016

Environ Plan A

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“…By contrast, business and financial sectors have been clustered in southern regions in recent years [39,40]; the land prices are higher in the south [41]. Therefore, PDL in the south is more likely to be underused than unused [42], to be A sites than B sites or C sites.…”

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Sticks and Stones: The Impact of the Definitions of Brownfield in Policies on Socio-Economic Sustainability

Tang

Nathanail

2012

Sustainability

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Many countries encourage brownfield regeneration as a means of sustainable development but define "brownfield" differently. Specifically, the definitions of brownfield in the regeneration policies of countries with higher population densities usually promote recycling land that is previously developed, whether or not there is chemical contamination. Further, the de facto definition of brownfield used by the UK government focuses on previously developed land that is unused or underused. The ANOVA in this study revealed that local authorities in England (n = 296) with higher percentages of derelict and vacant land tended to be more deprived based on the English Indices of Multiple Deprivation, which evaluate deprivation from the aspects of income, employment, health, education, housing, crime, and living environment. However, the percentage of previously developed land in use but with further development potential had no significant effect on the deprivation conditions. The Blair-Brown Government (1997~2010) encouraged more than 60% of new dwellings to be established on the previously developed land in England. The analyses in this study showed that this target, combined with the definition of brownfield in the policy, may have facilitated higher densities of residential development on previously developed land but without addressing the deprivation problems. These observations indicate that a definition of brownfield in regeneration policies should focus on previously developed land that is now vacant or derelict if land recycling is to contribute to sustainable communities.

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“…Regional differences are particularly large and persistent in Britain (Green, 1988;Martin, 1988) and consequently Hughes and McCormick (1989) argue that structural effects in the British labour market must hinder migration. They point to public housing, which is administered by local authorities, since although tenants have been shown to move often over short distances within local authority areas, they are much less likely than owner-occupiers to move over long distances between local authority areas (Gleave and Palmer, 1978;Hughes and McCormick, 1981).…”

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confidence: 99%