Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools to promote a variety of public goals and policies. In the past years much attention has been given to the expected social benefits from deploying ICT in different fields (transportation, education, public participation...

This paper presents a detailed explanation of the methodology to construct the Municipal Competitiveness Index 2013 for Mexico. The index is calculated using a methodology based on Factor Analysis and compares the performance of 96 municipalities belonging to 24 metropolitan areas in different...

This study explores the extent to which local amenities (quality of life and trade-productivity) are related to house price volatility, returns, and risk-adjusted returns across 238 MSAs from 1975 to 2013. We find strong and unambiguous evidence that high amenity areas experience greater price...

In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies what is the plan for the provisioning of basic resources? Green economists suggest a need to replace the globalized economy, and its extended supply chains, with a more local economy (Hines, 2000). But what does this mean in more concrete...

The chapter first explores the rise of the ‘network orthodoxy’. It proceeds to develop a critique of the regime-theoretical conception of the ruling class, building on my earlier work (Davies, 2002) and arguing that the Marxist conception is both stronger and, in the context of a theory of...

The scholarly literature on economic development is replete with analysis of best practices, including how to lure businesses to one’s community or develop businesses that are already present; what kinds of tax and regulatory regimes are favorable to economic development; and how different...

State preemption laws strictly limit local governments from regulating beyond their borders. Local governments, however, face a broad spectrum of challenges which cannot be confined to municipal borders. These challenges freely flow in and out of many local jurisdictions at the same time. The...

Current political crisis in Sudan have roots in lags of economic development and mismanagement. The result is food insecurity degeneration of the country's mainstay, the agricultural sector and underdevelopment of it secondary sector. The paper review issues on historical development of the...

This paper examines the impact of residential foreclosures and vacancies on violent and property crime. To overcome confounding factors, a difference-in-difference research design is applied to a unique data set containing geocoded foreclosure and crime data from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....