Megan Streb
@MeganStreb
Head of Outreach at What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. Also, fan of good planning and transport, and I've got ADHD. Tweets are my own. she/her
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https://whatworksgrowth.org/ 26-04-2012 10:12:38
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🎄 After some podcast recommendations for the festive season? 🎄
From why doctors still use pagers to how economists think about gift giving, here's some recommended listening from the What Works Growth team to enjoy over the Christmas break 🎙️⏬
whatworksgrowth.org/insights/recom…
Come work with me! Great opportunity for an economist to engage with policy and policymakers. Hosted at Centre for Economic Performance
I have published a Commons Library briefing paper on the 'trailblazer devolution deals' for Greater Manchester and the West Midlands: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief… The deals are long documents and tricky to understand: I hope I've managed to make them more accessible. Points to note:
We've had lots of positive feedback on our What Works Growth core economic concepts series. Do let us know if you find it helpful (or not) and if there are more things like this you would like to see us do. whatworksgrowth.org/insights/under…
Great to speak at the Local Area R&I Assoc conference on what What Works Growth + What Works network can offer #localgov --whether or not they have award winning research teams!
Lots of nodding when I talked about embedding evidence-use and eval w/ delivery + policy teams. Buy-in is critical!
Our What Works Growth core economic concepts blogs continue w/ #5 by Helene Donnat
These are a warm-up to our new 'Intro to local economic growth' course for #localgov
The first five are:
📈 Local growth
📊 GVA
⚒️ Productivity
🗺Spatial disparities
⚖️Supply & demand
Newest What Works Growth blog builds on GVA to give an intro to productivity. What do you need to know about it? What does it tell you? What are the caveats around using productivity measures?
Looking back over the UKSPF Investment Plan template that local gov't had to complete. 'give evidence where possible'?!?!
Come on, folks! You're breaking my heart.
#evidenceinformed #LocalGov
Rebecca Riley
Our newest blog -- What is GVA? What does it tell you about local growth? If you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, our new blog series will cover the basics on economic development. Likely useful for members of Institute of Economic Development (IED) Local Government Association (LGA) District Councils' Network County Councils Network