South West RDA Board Member John Savage delivers a speech on practically realising prosperity at the SWO Annual Conference. John's presentation looks at case studies from Bristol.

1. Practically Realising Prosperity John Savage CBE Board Member, SWRDA Managing Director, GWE Business West

2. THE ENGLISH REGIONS

4. Regional Economic Strategy

7. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need

8. UK Government pledge To halve child poverty by 2010 To abolish child poverty by 2020 3.8 million children in the UK live in poverty Our biggest challenge?

9. In major western economies only Italy and the USA have more poverty than the UK Poverty reduces social mobility, educational achievement, health and well being. Poverty defines lifestyle choices, drives crime and creates intolerance, disaffection and insecurity (JRF)