In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with
inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been. In a landmark analysis of the …

Bailey D. and Berkeley N. Regional responses to recession: the role of the West Midlands
Regional Taskforce, Regional Studies. Regional taskforces were set up across the English …

In the context of the deepest financial and economic recession since the 1930s, the success
of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) becomes crucial to restore economic …

Low-pay and limited opportunities for progression are major contemporary concerns in UK
labour markets. A number of individual and job-related factors have been shown to influence …

Regional taskforces were set up throughout the English regions in late 2008 in response to
the most severe recession since the Second World War. The taskforce approach offered an …