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The local and regional impact of the UK’s welfare reforms

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  • Christina Beatty
  • Steve Fothergill

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The Coalition government that came to power in the UK in 2010 is implementing unprecedented welfare reforms. These have the effect of substantially reducing payments to a wide range of low-income and out-of-work households. This article examines the local and regional impact of the reforms, showing how national reforms have a sharply different impact in different places. Taken as a whole, the welfare reforms affect derived areas most and are widening the gap in prosperity between the best and worst local economies across the UK.

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  • Christina Beatty & Steve Fothergill, 2014. "The local and regional impact of the UK’s welfare reforms," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 7(1), pages 63-79.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:7:y:2014:i:1:p:63-79.
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    1. Mike Coombes & Peter O'Brien & Andy Pike & John Tomaney, 2016. "Austerity States, Institutional Dismantling and the Governance of Sub-National Economic Development: The Demise of the Regional Development Agencies in England," SERC Discussion Papers 0206, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    2. Bambra, Clare & Smith, Katherine E. & Pearce, Jamie, 2019. "Scaling up: The politics of health and place," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 232(C), pages 36-42.
    3. Declan French, 2018. "Financial strain in the United Kingdom," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 70(1), pages 163-182.
    4. Kirsteen Paton & Vickie Cooper, 2016. "It's the State, Stupid: 21st Gentrification and State-Led Evictions," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 21(3), pages 134-140, August.

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