Search Results - subject:"Local Economic Development"

Local development, social protection and inclusion : typology of selected initiatives in Brazil: working paper, fighting social exclusion

Pochmann, Márcio - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2008

Analyses the common characteristics, origins and evolution of local development initiatives, as well as how they relate to social protection and inclusion.

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Local development and social protection in Europe

Estivill, Jordi - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2008

Using Portugal, Spain and Italy as case studies, examines the relationship between social protection and local economic … development. …

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Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program

Busso, Matias; Kline, Patrick - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2008

This paper evaluates the impact of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program on neighborhood level labor and housing market outcomes over the period 1994-2000. Using four decades of Census data in conjunction with information on the proposed boundaries of rejected EZs, we find...

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Management Practice Variation in Tax Increment Financing Districts

Hall, Jeremy L.; Bartels, Christopher E. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 28 (2014) 3, pp. 270-282

Research into tax increment financing (TIF) effectiveness has yielded mixed results, often under extensive controls. Until recently, no study had considered or controlled for the potential effects of internal management practices, including preproject planning and postimplementation performance...

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The Rural Economic Capacity Index (RECI)

Simms, Alvin; Freshwater, David; Ward, Jamie - In: Economic Development Quarterly 28 (2014) 4, pp. 351-363

Economic development practitioners and theorists recognize that community-based strategies offer the best opportunity for rural economic development. But, rural communities also need assistance in identifying and implementing their strategies. Two key needs are financial support and technical...

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High Road, Low Road, or Off Road? Economic Development Strategies in the American States

Hanley, Caroline; Douglass, Michael T. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 28 (2014) 3, pp. 220-229

Observers of state economic development policy in the United States have identified two conceptually distinct approaches, often termed industrial recruitment and entrepreneurial policies, and debated the extent to which a â€œthird waveâ€ of policy emergent during the 1990s represents a...

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Beyond the Deal

Lowe, Nichola J. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 28 (2014) 4, pp. 287-299

Industrial recruitment continues to play a significant role in the development of manufacturing industries in the U.S. South. Still, there are signs of shifting practice that not only emphasize a different set of regional advantages from earlier decades but equally help bolster those same...

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Borderlands: Rescaling economic development in Northern England in the context of greater Scottish autonomy

Shaw, Keith; Robinson, Fred; Blackie, Jonathan - In: Local Economy 29 (2014) 4-5, pp. 412-428

-border economic development; this is an issue that is virtually absent from any contemporary studies of local economic development in …

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Empty gestures? A review of the discourses of â€˜localismâ€™ from the practitionerâ€™s perspective

Ludwig, Carol; Ludwig, Gregory - In: Local Economy 29 (2014) 3, pp. 245-256

of enabling local economic development by facilitating private sector-led growth (through ensuring fewer local objections …

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The globality of the local? A decolonial perspective on local economic development in South Africa

Ndlovu, Morgan; Makoni, Eric Nyembezi - In: Local Economy 29 (2014) 4-5, pp. 503-518

This article employs the decolonial thinking paradigm to dispel the long-held myth that Local Economic Development … that the growing literature celebrating the salience of Local Economic Development strategies often downplay how these …, is that Local Economic Development strategies implemented in highly socio-spatially fragmented and economically uneven …

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