{"id":6326,"date":"2019-08-29T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T09:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2019-08-29T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T09:41:21","slug":"west-midlands-economic-monitor-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Economic Monitor: August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/08\/WMEM-Aug-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6332\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/08\/WMEM-Aug-19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"528\" \/><\/a>August&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for you to keep up to date with recent developments in the region.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s monitor reveals that PMI data has improved, the region is bucking the trend on investment and a tall-build boom in Birmingham continues to gain momentum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest edition of the monitor by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/08\/WMEM-2019-08_c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>The West Midlands Economic Monitor was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benabrittain?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Brittain<\/a>, Policy and Data Analyst, City-REDI,\u00a0 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>August&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for you to keep up to date with recent developments in the region. This month\u2019s monitor reveals that PMI data has improved, the region is bucking the trend on investment and a tall-build boom in Birmingham continues to gain momentum. Get the latest edition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-august-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;West Midlands Economic Monitor: August 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":6332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,8,23,85,6,106,13,308,19,267],"tags":[52,487,486,488,322],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cities","category-city-redi","category-city-redi-publications","category-economics","category-geography","category-government","category-health","category-policy","category-regions","tag-birmingham","tag-construction","tag-pmi-data","tag-tall-build-boom","tag-west-midlands-economic-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}