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SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Steve Fotherg
 ill - 'The demolition of British Regional Policy' - Professor Steve Fother
 gill
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:*Speaker:*  Professor Steve Fothergill\n*Talk Title:* “The d
 emolition of British Regional Policy'\n*Time:* 18:00 -19:30\n*Location:* R
 amsden room\, St Catharine's College\n\nThe seminar series is supported by
  the Cambridge Political Economy Society and the Economics and Policy Grou
 p at the Cambridge Judge Business School.\n\n*Talk Overview:*\nRegional po
 licy has always seemed like a fixture in British political and economic li
 fe.  Since the 1930s\, there have just about always been substantial effor
 ts to promote growth and jobs in the less prosperous parts of the country.
   But\, as this presentation will argue\, bit by bit British regional poli
 cy is now being dismantled.  This has not been the result of a single deci
 sion but over the last decade we’ve seen the abolition of Assisted Area 
 status\, the removal of EU funding to the regions and now the winding down
  of ‘levelling up’ initiatives.  In place of regional policy we now ha
 ve a misplaced faith that devolution\, especially to mayors\, will narrow 
 the UK’s gaps in prosperity and well-being.  The presentation will draw 
 on deep involvement in the policy debate and on a solid understanding of t
 he on-going problems in Britain’s less prosperous places.\n\n*Speaker Ov
 erview:*\nSteve Fothergill is the National Director of the Industrial Comm
 unities Alliance\, the all-party association representing local authoritie
 s in the older industrial areas of England\, Scotland and Wales.  An econo
 mist and academic by background\, he is author or co-author of five books 
 and more than 200 articles and reports on aspects of local and regional de
 velopment\, including The Impact of Welfare Reform (2016)\, Industrial Str
 ategy and the Regions (2017)\, Local Productivity (2019)\, The Real Level 
 of Unemployment (2022) and State of the Coalfields (2024).\n
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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