Manchester City Region

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Manchester City Region Daniel Dobson-Mouawad
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• Improving?
• Unemployment down
• Crime down
• Population loss down
• Employment up
• Wages up
• Housing prices up
• Education standards up
• Air passengers up

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• Competitiveness
• Ability to attract and maintain firms with
  stableor rising market shares in an activity,
  while maintaining stable or increasing standards
  of living for those who participate in it.
• Not punching their economic weight
• Falling behind London and European cities
• Lack powers, responsibilities and resources

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Best Cities to Locate a Business Healey Baker
2005
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Cities which enjoy greater fiscal and political
independence are more proactive, more
entrepreneurial and more competitive.
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• 5 Golden Rules
• Importance of London
• Invent a utopia
• Varying speeds
• Sound reason
• Where the buck stops

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Manchester City Region
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• The Accelerators
• Financial and Professional Services
• Life Sciences
• Creative, Cultural and Media
• Manufacturing
• Communications
• Manchester Airport

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• Greater Manchester Business Plan
• Vision
• GVA Analysis
• Spatial Statement
• Accelerators CRDP priority sectors and wider
• Focus mainstream programmes
• Transformational activities
• Implementation
• Governance

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Drivers of GVA Growth