The daily review is being led by White House adviser Larry Summers, head of the president's National Economic Council.

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Austan Goolsbee, a longtime Obama adviser, will be the chief economist on the panel and also a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.

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Hugh Sharp, an economic-policy adviser to Sheffield council, argues that provincial cities should instead try to replicate some of the things that make London tick by, for example, improving international transport links, or creating partnerships between local government and the private sector.

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