Levelling-up national economies through regional development? a panel fsQCA approach applied to Great Britain

Huggins, R, Thompson, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1961-7441, Beynon, M, Pickernell, D and Jones, P, 2025. Levelling-up national economies through regional development? a panel fsQCA approach applied to Great Britain. The Annals of Regional Science, 74 (1): 19. ISSN 0570-1864

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Abstract

There is currently renewed policy focus on ‘levelling-up’ economic performance across Great Britain’s regions and nations. Heterogeneous historical regional economic experiences lead to questions over the need for policy differences and trade-offs, and roles of regional, versus national level, policies in the longer term. This paper examines, using panel fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), combinations of education and human capital, entrepreneurship, and economic activity conditions driving economic development differences across local authorities in Great Britain. Analysis identifies three and six condition-based pathways for the presence and absence of high local economic development (LED), respectively, absence pathways having a particular geographical focus. This identifies different sets of regions, where disadvantage is ‘deep-rooted’ (and non-traditional policymaking is needed), advantage is long-established, or where policy is most likely to make a positive difference. It also identifies a need to tailor policy according to the pathway(s), rather than assuming homogeneous approaches are appropriate. Finally, exemplar regions offer case studies of how future policy can assist movement from absence to presence of high LED.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	The Annals of Regional Science
Creators:	Huggins, R., Thompson, P., Beynon, M., Pickernell, D. and Jones, P.
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date:	March 2025
Volume:	74
Number:	1
ISSN:	0570-1864
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s00168-024-01332-8 DOI 2362019 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2024. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Melissa Cornwell
Date Added:	29 Jan 2025 09:54
Last Modified:	29 Jan 2025 09:54
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52940

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