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...Alfani persuasively argues that society’s tolerance of the rich depended on their acceptance that they have to bankroll common needs....
...The MDC is a new body signed off by the government last month that is aimed at fast-tracking development and forms part of its wider “levelling up” agenda to tackle regional inequality....
...The MPs said the watchdog’s probe should be extended to the development corporation and combined authority overseeing the scheme locally, both of which are chaired by Houchen....
...It sits at the heart of the premise of a development corporation: cut through red tape in the name of delivery....
...Teesworks is one of the most high-profile elements in the government’s “levelling up” agenda to address the UK’s persistent regional inequality....
...In 2021, the South Tees Development Corporation, the public authority chaired by Houchen, gave the developers 90 per cent ownership of the Teesworks development vehicle for no cash consideration....
...While Attracta Mooney, Aime Williams and Simeon Kerr rightly point out all that is wrong with the COP28 deal (Report, December 14), we must acknowledge that acceptance is the first step towards action....
...“People have the perception that Mingei is just brown pots,” says Roisin Inglesby, a curator at the William Morris Gallery in London....
...A row over a local roundabout in the north-east of England has thrown a spotlight on the way the Tory party’s most high-profile regional mayor conducts his business....
..., rely on their regional Federal Home Loan Bank and hasty reforms could produce many unintended consequences for the country’s financial system....
...Johnson’s core promises were to spend more on policing, hospitals and schools and on a regional policy to foster growth in the north....
...All three of Tees Valley’s corporations have, for overlapping reasons, proved controversial....
...But the low acceptance rate by minority shareholders did not matter much to Kitao, who knows his way around the rules....
...The letter said Houchen had indicated that the assets were “integral to the delivery of the development corporation’s masterplan”....
...Multinational banks, law firms and other businesses often selected the territory as the hub for their Asia regional operations....
...Teesworks is the country’s largest brownfield site and is overseen by the South Tees Development Corporation, chaired by Houchen....
...John Tomaney, professor of urban and regional planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, says there are now also “clear problems with the accountability and transparency of the...
...William Cohan, ‘The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co’ (2007) Favourite: Point of No Return, by John Marquand....
...The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) held a ceremony on Wednesday in Colombo to publicise the commitment....
...It is the country’s largest brownfield site and is overseen by the South Tees Development Corporation (STDC), chaired by Houchen....
...However, a push by West Midlands Conservative mayor Andy Street for further fiscal devolution, which would have included retaining a percentage of VAT and corporation tax raised in his area, is said not...
...But he had also pushed for reforms that would allow £3bn of value added tax, corporation and stamp duty raised locally to be hypothecated to the mayoralty over a 30-year period....
...Back in 2019, three of the largest US regional banks successfully lobbied regulators to ease their capital requirements by excluding paper losses on their investment portfolios....
...The more fundamental point, made by William White, former head of the monetary and economic department of the Bank for International Settlements, is that the world is moving from an age of plenty to an age...
...In Street’s memo, he calls for a portion of value added tax and corporation tax revenues that are raised locally to be kept in the West Midlands....
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