Archive of Yorkshire Business Insider
Issue - March 2010
Our March cover story tackles the great debate over public-private partnerships head-on as we canvas opinion on the future of regeneration projects across the region and ask whether they have a viable future in the wake of pending public sector cuts. We also put the private equity industry under the microscope and look at how it has had to reinvent itself in the wake of the financial crash; and also look east to ask whether China can come to the rescue of the world economy and the extent to which Yorkshire companies are making the most of the growth of the Chinese economy.
As the pre-election temperature rises in Whitehall and the talk of swingeing public sector cuts grows louder by the day, one important element of this debate is getting a bit lost. Namely, just what will happen to the great spirit of public private collaboration we have seen over the past 20 years or so?
The regeneration agenda is disappearing before our eyes.
With crippling public sector cuts looming, Kurt Jacobs
asks: is there a future for public-private partnership?
When Tony Veverka, chief executive of Ultralase, says laser eye surgery changes lives he speaks from experience.
