| Developing Locally: An International Comparison of Local and Regional Economic Development Contributor(s): Beer, Andrew (Editor), Haughton, Graham (Editor), Maude, Alaric (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1861344856 ISBN-13: 9781861344854 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $48.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: Despite the enormous interest in British local and regional economic development and the growth in policies, programs and organizations to encourage this development, little attention has been paid to cross-national comparisons. This book fills that gap by offering comparisons of local and regional economic development organizations objectives, activities and effectiveness across four English speaking nations - the US, England, Australia and Northern Ireland. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 338.9 |
| LCCN: 2004444398 |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Throughout the developed world governments have invested substantial sums in local and regional economic development. Many have spent heavily on local development agencies and strategies to bolster competitiveness within world markets. What has been the impact of these actions? How effective are the strategies and processes employed by development agencies? How well funded are development efforts in one nation compared to another, and how are their objectives defined? This book addresses these questions. It: - explores the impact and functioning of economic development agencies; - makes a unique contribution to the emerging literature on economic development agencies by reporting on the results of a cross-national survey of economic development practitioners; - compares the 'institutional architectures' of economic development in Australia, England, the United States and Northern Ireland; - analyses how these institutional arrangements affect individual agencies and their regions. This book is intended for a wide audience including economic development practitioners, local government officers, officials within national or state governments and academics. It provides the reader with a greater appreciation of how local and regional economic development systems operate in different economies and aids understanding of what makes the economic development system in each nation unique. It challenges ideas about the uniformity of economic development efforts and encourages practitioners and policy makers to experiment with and explore strategies used elsewhere. |