The interest rate regime embraced to combat strong inflation of the mid-1970s and early 1980s has had unintended consequences—including the development of historic levels of wealth inequality. Yakov ...

While local authorities face an increasing number of complex challenges to support local economic resilience, sustainable development and levelling up within their own ‘backyards’, and all with ...

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