{"id":5537,"date":"2019-03-26T11:07:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2019-09-23T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T09:56:47","slug":"the-march-edition-of-the-west-midlands-economic-monitor-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/the-march-edition-of-the-west-midlands-economic-monitor-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"The March edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5540\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/wmemmar-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1121\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/wmemmar-1.png 1121w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/wmemmar-1-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/wmemmar-1-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/wmemmar-1-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/wmemmar-1-250x177.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for download. We look at the changes in regional productivity, employment, business activity and house prices in the region, as well as projects that have been announced in rail, 5G internet, electric cars and adult education in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>You can get the March edition of the monitor by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/WMEM-March-v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This blog was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/liamofarrell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liam O\u2019Farrell<\/a>, Policy and Data Analyst, City-REDI, University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nThe opinions presented here belong to the author rather than the University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To sign up for our blog mailing list, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cityredi@contacts.bham.ac.uk?Subject=City-REDI%20Blog%20Mailing%20List\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for download. We look at the changes in regional productivity, employment, business activity and house prices in the region, as well as projects that have been announced in rail, 5G internet, electric cars and adult education in the West Midlands. You can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/the-march-edition-of-the-west-midlands-economic-monitor-is-now-available\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The March edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,23,85,6],"tags":[52,24,27,122,196,235,229,111,322],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-city-redi","category-city-redi-publications","category-economics","tag-birmingham","tag-city-redi","tag-economic-growth","tag-employment","tag-housing","tag-infrastructure","tag-liam-ofarrell","tag-west-midlands","tag-west-midlands-economic-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}