Freeports: Johnson should look elsewhere for growth enhancements
Freeports may epitomise the Brexiters’ ‘global Britain’ but the UK economy performs too poorly for these to be more than luxury entrepôts.
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Oddný Helgadóttir
Oddný Helgadóttir is an assistant professor in political economy at the Copenhagen Business School's Department of Organisation. She has researched luxury freeports under the auspices of the EU Horizon 2020 project 'Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators'.