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In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Andy Pike of the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, present a critique of the UK Government's strategy of attracting inward investment on the assumption that it will establish a 'demonstration effect'....

Pike A. (2002) Post-devolution blues? Economic development in the Anglo-Scottish Borders, Reg. Studies 36, 1069-1084. Uneven regional development on each side of the Anglo-Scottish Border has underpinned a 'post-devolution blues' in North East England. The situation has been compounded by the...

The task force has re-emerged as a mechanism for co-ordinating economic development activity in the context of the current New Labour administration's emphasis upon including 'stakeholders' in 'joined-up' approaches to 'cross-cutting' issues. Recent experience in the North East region of England...

TOMANEY J., PIKE A. and CORNFORD J. (1999) Plant closure and the local economy: the case of Swan Hunter on Tyneside, Reg. Studies 33, 401-411. This paper seeks to describe and account for the closure of a Tyneside shipyard and to illuminate the wider issues concerning plant closure and the local...