Community Wealth Building (CWB) is an approach to local economic development which focuses on retaining public spending and economic activity in a local area. Will Brett-Harding discusses evidence on local economic impacts of interventions not considered as 'economic', as well as approaches such as CWB which are economic but not part of the traditional local growth toolkit.

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3 April 2023

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What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth

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https://whatworksgrowth.org/insights/community-wealth-building-for-local-growth/

This Blog is published under the centre's Urban programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: What determines urban growth and urban decline and what should be the role of policy?