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What we do
What we do
Find out more about What Works Growth, our organisational goals, and the variety of support we can offer.
Overview
Evidence topics
Evidence topics
Take a deep dive into our range of evidence resources spanning eleven important policy topics.
Overview
Resources
Resources
Browse guidance, case studies, evidence reviews, toolkits and more.
All resources
Policy challenges
Policy challenges
Evidence, guidance and case studies covering some of today’s biggest policy challenges.
Overview
About us
About us
Meet the What Works Growth team, find out about current vacancies and explore our FAQs.
Overview
Latest

WHAT WORKS CENTRE FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC GROWTH

We help to make local growth policy more cost-effective.

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We help local and national organisations to make local growth policy more cost-effective, through better use of evidence and evaluation.

We support and fund evaluations, deliver training, and provide evidence and evaluation resources, all free of charge.

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Assessing the local economic impacts of plural and local ownership policies

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Plural ownership policies aim to support businesses with alternative legal and organisational structures – such as cooperatives, social enterprises, and municipal enterprises. Local ownership policies aim to support locally-owned businesses. This briefing provides a framework to help policymakers think through some of the local economic impacts of plural and local ownership policies.

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