The new Coalition Government formed in May 2010 in the UK is to abolish Regional Development Agencies and, in the name of a 'new localism', is to replace them with Local Enterprise Partnerships, 'joint local authority-business bodies brought forward by local authorities to promote local economic...

The objectives of this paper are to test the hypotheses of technical and price efficiency through estimating translog profit functions using the 1987-88 farm level survey data from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. The price efficiency hypothesis cannot be rejected while...

This paper examines how the loss of 6300 jobs from the closure of MG Rover (MGR) in the city of Birmingham (UK) in April 2005 affected the employment trajectories of ex-workers, in the context of wider structural change and efforts at urban renewal. The paper presents an analysis of a...