Promoting Local Growth
Title | Promoting Local Growth PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Felsenstein |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2019-05-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1351738313 |
This title was first published in 2001. Focusing on new industries, policies and new forms of governance, the internationally renowned contributors to this volume examine the factors promoting the sub-national economic growth that is paradoxically occurring in an era of globalization.
Promoting Local Growth
Title | Promoting Local Growth PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Felsenstein |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2020-12-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138734951 |
This title was first published in 2001. Focusing on new industries, policies and new forms of governance, the internationally renowned contributors to this volume examine the factors promoting the sub-national economic growth that is paradoxically occurring in an era of globalization.
An effective tool for promoting local growth and competitiveness?
Title | An effective tool for promoting local growth and competitiveness? PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Bland |
Publisher | RTI Press |
Pages | 21 |
Release | 2017-04-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
This article examines the sustainability of the subnational business environment index (BEIs) as a development tool for subnational promotion of private sector growth and competitiveness. We define sustainability as the BEI's continued application after its external support has been concluded. The 13 BEIs examined here have been largely financed by international aid agencies over the past decade. We compare the main features of all the current or recent subnational BEIs we could locate, covering countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. We discuss their origins, financing, conceptual approaches, methodological parameters, intergovernmental linkages, and longevity. A few of them have been applied repeatedly as intended by index proponents, but nearly half of the indices have been discontinued. Two are eminently sustainable and another appears to be. The apparently successful index in El Salvador is highlighted. We conclude that indices face serious limitations, including politicization, weak business sector interest, lack of local funding, and need for an impartial sponsor. Yet indices do show some promise for reform where the index is well developed and where conditions that appear favorable to their successful utilization apply—that is, in countries with a strong private sector, governmental interest, and an open economy.
Promoting Local Economic Development Through Strategic Planning
Title | Promoting Local Economic Development Through Strategic Planning PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | UN-HABITAT |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Economic development projects |
ISBN | 9211317266 |
Promoting Local Economic Development Through Strategic Planning: Action guide
Title | Promoting Local Economic Development Through Strategic Planning: Action guide PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | UN-HABITAT |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Economic development projects |
ISBN | 9211317258 |
Local Government's Role in Promoting Economic Growth
Title | Local Government's Role in Promoting Economic Growth PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Travers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Economic development |
ISBN |
Making Sense of Incentives
Title | Making Sense of Incentives PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy J. Bartik |
Publisher | W.E. Upjohn Institute |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0880996684 |
Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop—and provide new jobs—in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.