Kevin Muldoon-Smith
Turning local goverment’s fortunes around
Kevin Muldoon-Smith and Mark Sandford look to Germany, Italy and Japan for inspiration as they put forward four proposals for transforming the fortunes of local government finance in England
Weak link between localism and economic growth
When business rate retention was first introduced in 2013 it had two underlying policy objectives: localism and economic growth - but two academic question the link.