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Today we launched our two new publications Understanding economic well-being and Economic well-being – guidance for local authorities which we hope will encourage local communities and local government to include economic well-being as an objective in their work. They are based on research carried out for CRC in 2009 by consultants Globe Regeneration and Rural Innovation which is summarised in their report Promoting sustainable economic well-being - Spreading good practice.

We are encouraging decision makers to explore and adopt a perspective on economic well-being for rural areas that is wider than traditional economic policies which focus on GDP-led economic growth and believe that a wider measure or index of economic well-being should lead to improved economic and other policies