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Tony Venables is a Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School. He has published extensively in the areas of international and spatial economics, including work on trade and competition, economic integration, multinational firms, economic geography, and regional economics. A fellow of the British Academy and the Econometric Society, he has also worked for the UK government and the World Bank. He is the former research director at The Productivity Institute.