by Glenn | Oct 15, 2025 | EXTERNAL NEWS
Source: African Centre for Cities Author: Belisa Rodrigues Date published: 2025-10-15 [original article can be accessed via hyperlink at the end] URBAN2063 SPECIAL REPORT | Africa’s cities are at a tipping point. Rapid growth, informal work, and underinvestment have...
by Glenn | Oct 15, 2025 | EXTERNAL NEWS
Source: News Author: unknown Date published: 2025-10-15 [original article can be accessed via hyperlink at the end] Liverpool City Council Leader, Cllr Liam Robinson, joined Mayor Steve Rotheram and other city region leaders today to launch a ‘bold and ambitious’...
by Glenn | Oct 15, 2025 | EXTERNAL NEWS
Source: Local Economies (UK) Author: unknown Date published: 2025-10-15 [original article can be accessed via hyperlink at the end] The advancement of all-island cluster development was endorsed by the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, and First Minister, Michelle O’Neill,...
by Glenn | Oct 14, 2025 | Best practice, General, Organisational development, Performance, Professional development
Let’s cut the fanfare. Economic Development is not a press release, its not a claim of a golden future in a manifesto or strategy. It’s a job, on the ground, in a neighbourhood. In the UK, we’ve perfected the art of the launch event—the glossy,...
by Glenn | Oct 14, 2025 | Engagement, General
You have a brilliant economic development plan. You present it to the City Council, the Board, or the Regiona/State Committee, and it dies a slow, bureaucratic death. Why? Because getting the green light to proceed in economic development is a game of two halves: 1)...
