Comments on: Black Country LEP unveils £120m growth plan to create 6,000 manufacturing jobs

By: dgbailey

dgbailey — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:55:37 +0000

Black Country LEP unveils £120m growth plan to create 6,000 manufacturing jobs http://t.co/OkhP2OWa9d via @@chamberlainfile

By: Andrew Lydon

Andrew Lydon — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:37:45 +0000

All this emphasis on sites reminds me of the sort of economic development strategy that Manchester was adopting about a hundred years ago. They made themselves Europe’s biggest base for US manufacturing capital like Westinghouse, Ford and Kelloggs. But by the 1920s they were a depressed region. By contrast the leadership of the West Midlands had a broader economic strategy that made its the country’s powerhouse until …http://localisewestmidlands.org.uk/2013/adam-smiths-invisible-hand-and-visible-hands-in-birmingham/

By: Andrew Lydon

Andrew Lydon — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:35:46 +0000

By: paulmdale

paulmdale — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:01:42 +0000

Black Country LEP unveils £120m growth plan to create 6,000 jobs.
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