THE PRODUCTIVITY PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF UK REGIONS AND THE CHALLENGES OF LEVELLING UP

Abstract This article examines the key features of UK’s spatial productivity relationships and discusses some questions currently being articulated or debated as they relate to potential devolution-related discussions. The paper demonstrates that local challenges facing UK regions are nationwide in nature rather than local, systemic specific. In particular, scale-productivity across cities which evident almost all other OECD countries largely absent UK. Instead, previous prosperity is dominant marker current prosperity, suggesting cumulative causation processes define regional urban economic landscape scale relations. explains these a manner accessible wide audience, order provide greater clarity regarding fundamental problems be addressed also underlying objectives Levelling Up agenda needs achieve.