International Comparators for the West Midlands

Published 03 March 2025
Updated 03 March 2025

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Typically, UK city-regions have been compared against London, with prescriptions for UK productivity focused on a London-centric model of productivity growth. This work seeks to develop this approach by identifying international city-regions which, in the past, bore the closest resemblance to the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) area in terms of its demographics, economic composition, and administration; but which have now outpaced and outperformed productivity growth rates in other regions in their own countries since.