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Article: Finding out how we can make every Midlander pounds 2,000 better off; Tim Gebbels, Advantage West Midlands corporate director of strategy and communications, explains the work of the West Midlands Regional Observatory.(Business)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2007
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The West Midlands economy currently underperforms relative to national and international competitors. If we performed at the level of the average for the UK, the region's economy would be pounds 10 billion better off - that's pounds 2,000 for every person in the West Midlands.
Advantage West Midlands has been consulting with businesses, stakeholders and the public on the strategy our region needs if it is to overcome the substantial productivity gap we face.
More than 2,000 representations have been made to help shape the revised Regional Economic Strategy ...