This paper examines practices and approaches taken by local governments in Indonesia as a response to the issue of street vendors as an example of the informal economic actor. The paper aims to unravel the conceptual understanding of the economic role of street vendors. Using case studies and...

Inner-city neighborhood retail development often engenders vigorous popular and political debate about the scale, scope, and location of projects as well as their intended and inadvertent effects for urban landscapes, residents, and consumers. The term commercial revitalization is frequently...

Abstract Following work by Richard Florida and Jane Jacobs, tolerance along with talent and technology are purported to attract the ‘creative class’, seen as key in spurring economic dynamism in the knowledge economy. Representing both tolerance and diversity, we test an index of...

We present a three-fold test for sustainability on policies addressing environmental and natural resource management. The first — <i>ecological holism</i> — requires that management of natural systems not only ensure the long term viability of ecosystem functions and enhanced diversity of wildlife...

In Quebec, the term "local development" has replaced the term "community economic development", which was related, during the 1970s, to initiatives having a double objective, social and economic, put forward by stakeholders who were affected by economic circumstances and who were willing to...

The purpose of this article is to offer a methodical approach to deciding when, where, and how to invest in entrepreneurship as a crosscutting economic development strategy. To accomplish this, the authors present and operationalize the concept of a pipeline of entrepreneurs and enterprises in...

Localise West Midlands has conducted research examining the assumption that a more localised economy, in which more people have a stake, redistributes economic power and resilience, thereby reducing disconnection and inequality. It argues that such economies, characterised as having higher...

Miles N. and Tully J. (2007) Regional Development Agency policy to tackle economic exclusion? The role of social capital in distressed communities, Regional Studies 41, 855-866. Economic exclusion and 'worklessness' are high on the current political agenda; both continue to characterize large...

This paper is the second paper in a series of papers on Community Economic Development Strategic Framework for Poverty Alleviation in Local Government with particular attention to the Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality (RMLM). The objective of this paper is twofold: (i) to examine the rationale...

This paper presents the evidence of the initial beneficial effects of Community Economic Development (CED) initiatives in Yorkshire and the Humber. The evidence is drawn from survey work undertaken as part of the formal evaluation of the region's 1994-99 Structural Funds Objective 2 programme....