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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2008 1(1):1-16; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn004
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Editorial: Poverty and place in the UK and the USA

Amy Glasmeier*, Ron Martin{dagger}, Peter Tyler{ddagger} and Danny Dorling+

* Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 302 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA, akg1@ems.psu.edu

{dagger} Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN UK rlm1@cam.ac.uk

{ddagger} Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver St, Cambridge CB3 9EP, UK pt23@cam.ac.uk

+ Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK danny.dorling@sheffield.ac.uk

Received on January 4, 2008. Accepted on January 31, 2008.

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The focus of this issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is on the spatial incidence of poverty in what are two of the world's richest nations, the USA and the UK. As we write this editorial, the economies of the USA and UK are experiencing considerable economic turmoil. The Sub-Prime credit and banking crisis, plummeting stock prices around the globe, the relentless rise in the real price of oil and the continued decline in the value of the dollar all pose challenges for the US and UK economies. This uncertainty comes after a decade and a half of growing prosperity in both countries when—despite cyclical ups and downs—the trend rate of real economic growth was of the order of 3.8% for the USA and 3.5% for the UK between 1992–2005. However, the economic benefits of this relatively favourable economic performance in these countries have not been . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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