This book makes a major contribution to the debate and is directed at researchers, decision makers and students who are interested in the wider economic development impacts of transport.

Economic Development Is Not for Amateurs! shows forward-thinking leaders how to transform local, regional, or state economies and supercharge a community's revitalization effort to attract jobs, investment, and residents. Offering practical, real-world solutions, economic development experts Jay Garner and Ross Patten identify the steps that communities of all sizes can implement to create a roadmap for long-term economic success. This step-by-step guide to transform locations explains how to: Provide the certainty, simplicity, and speed necessary to build a strong business climate Sell voters on the investments necessary to attract and retain employers and jobs Create, identify, and reinforce your community's brand Build a resilient economy prepared for business closings, natural catastrophes, and stiff competition Help create irrefutable proof of a skilled workforce that is ready to work as well as a talent pipeline that is ready to fill the jobs of tomorrow Find the inevitable bottlenecks of investment in order to keep your momentum building Chapter titles include: Chapter 1: Effective Leadership = Community Prosperity Chapter 2: No Product, No Project(tm) Chapter 3: Market Regionally, Sell Locally Chapter 4: Is Your Labor Force Work Ready? Chapter 5: Grow Your Garden Chapter 6: Time Kills Deals Chapter 7: It's All About the Brand Chapter 8: Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will Each chapter has a bulleted summary of the key takeaways for quick reference and recall. Whether you are a newly elected or appointed leader wondering where to start or a long-term policymaker looking to model today's best practices, Economic Development Is Not for Amateurs! will show you the way. Bulk order purchasing: eBook: Amazon does not allow the modification of eBook fees. The cost for this book is $9.99. You can still buy it in bulk as an eBook and then provide a redemption code to selected recipients. When an entity buys multiple copies of a Kindle eBook on Amazon.com, Amazon creates a set of redemption links, one for each copy of the book. You can send these links to any reader who is in the same country where you bought the copies. Recipients can redeem the eBook from desktop or mobile browsers and download the eBook to registered devices. This eBook can only be read through a Kindle or a Kindle app. Any smart device or tablet, e.g. iPhone, iPad, can download the Kindle app and read this book. We use this app on our iPhone and iPad and it works great! Paperback: Amazon will print exactly how many were ordered and will ship to the customer. For paperback orders of 1-25 copies, the cost is $15.99 per copy plus shipping purchased directly through Amazon. Pricing: For orders of 26-50, $14.99 per copy, plus shipping & handling. The order will be shipped from the authors and can be signed if desired (by one author). Please contact either author for bulk orders of 26 or more. For orders of 51-100, $13.99 per copy, plus shipping & handling and can be signed if desired. For orders in excess of 101, $12.99 per copy, plus shipping & handling and can be signed if desired. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Co-authors Jay Garner or Ross Patten can customize a speaking event and book signing for your group. Contact the authors at [email protected] for more information.

Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of experts, this is the first comprehensive volume to analyze conglomerates and economic groups in developing countries and transition economies. Using sixteen in-depth case studies it provides a comparative framework for the study of contemporary process of privatization, economic and financial liberalization and neoliberal globalization. Exploring the various causes and economic, social and political effects of the rise of ‘big business’ in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe, the main issues that are examined include: the nature of contemporary economic concentration the relations between ‘local’ and ‘external’ investors the impact on development, and on economic and political control over its direction the new role of the state towards conglomerates and economics groups the effects of economic and political changes on the legitimacy of the state and large companies. This volume is perfect as either a textbook or supplementary reading for students at all levels, as well as researchers and governmental and non-governmental professionals working and studying in the fields of international business and economic development.

Evaluates the impact of equity investments in five cities during the 1990s.

Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today’s development economics research and practice, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. Each chapter concludes with an embedded QR code that connects readers to ancillary audiovisual materials and supplemental readings on a website curated by the authors. By mastering the material in this book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to higher-level development economics courses.

"Policy-makers often call for expanding public spending on infrastructure, which includes a broad range of investments from roads and bridges to digital networks that will expand access to high-speed broadband. Some point to near-term macro-economic benefits and job creation, others focus on long-term effects on productivity and economic growth. This volume explores the links between infrastructure spending and economic outcomes, as well as key economic issues in the funding and management of infrastructure projects. It draws together research studies that describe the short-run stimulus effects of infrastructure spending, develop new estimates of the stock of U.S. infrastructure capital, and explore the incentive aspects of public-private partnerships (PPPs). A salient issue is the treatment of risk in evaluating publicly-funded infrastructure projects and in connection with PPPs. The goal of the volume is to provide a reference for researchers seeking to expand research on infrastructure issues, and for policy-makers tasked with determining the appropriate level of infrastructure spending"--