The three Council’s appointed AMION to prepare an economic review of the Cross-Border Partnership area. In addition, AMION was also commissioned to undertake a detailed assessment of completed and future major projects. The main components of the study included:
identifying and exploring the economic performance, linkages, similarities and differences between the three areas. This analysis was sub-divided into three components:
As well as historic and current data, economic forecasts from Cambridge Econometrics were analysed to assess future prospects. A summary assessment of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats was undertaken and the implications for joint working considered;