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Tackling the UK’s Regional Economic Inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention

About the Seminar: The UK is one of the most regionally unequal industrialized economies. In this seminar, Ed Balls and Anna Stansbury will discuss the UK’s regional economic inequality from the perspective of productivity disparities between large regions, focusing on the gap between London/South East vs the rest, looking at four important economic inputs – education, infrastructure, innovation, and access to finance – for each one building up a collage of evidence to gauge the extent to which it is a binding constraint on regions’ productivity growth. They emphasize that economic opportunity for those from outside London and the South East is curtailed by London’s overheating housing market, which limits interregional mobility.