The government's review of sub-national economic development and regeneration: key issues [PDF]
, 2008 We are now in the midst of another concerted attempt by Government to make sense of and tidy up the sub-national governance of economic development and regeneration.
Pike, Andy, Tomaney, John
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University-local industry linkages : the case of Tohoku University in the Sendai area of Japan [PDF]
This paper focuses on Tohoku University in Sendai in the nonmetropolitan area of Japan. Both a long historical and comparative perspective and a spacial perspective are essential to discuss the relevance of university-local industry linkages to local ...
Abe, Shiro, Harayama, Yuko, Jiang, Juan
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The Economic and Social Consequences of the Reconstruction of the Economy of the BAZ County in Hungary [PDF]
, 2001 Structural changes in the region's economy caused fast growing unemployment in the early 1990's. Both government and local authorities made significant efforts to stop the economic decline and the social crisis.
Zsugyel, János
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Evaluating the Impacts of Local Economic Development Policies On Local Economic Outcomes: What Has Been Done and What is Doable? [PDF]
This paper argues that more rigorous evaluations of local economic development policies are feasible. Programs that aid selected small firms can be rigorously evaluated using an experimental approach, without excluding firms from assistance, by randomly ...
Timothy J. Bartik
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Local area agreements and local economic development [PDF]
, 2009 This study explores the variations in the number and types of economic indicators adopted across different localities within the 2008 Local Area Agreement (LAA) process by identifying the factors that influenced indicator selection and the extent and nature of the relationship of the adopted indicators to processes of local economic development.
Syrett, Stephen +5 more
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Saturn\u27s Rings: What GM\u27s Saturn Project Is Really About [PDF]
, 1986 [Excerpt] In their listing of top news stories of 1985 in the economically depressed Youngstown-Warren area, local newspapers consistently listed Saturn mania near the top.
Russo, John
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Overcoming successive bottlenecks: The evolution of a potato cluster in China [PDF]
Although the role of industrial policy in economic development is a frequent topic of debate in both the literature and the political arena, most such discussions focus on industrial policymaking at the national level.
Hu, Dinghuan, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Financing resources available for local economic development
Annals of Spiru Haret University Economic Series, 2012 This paper reveals that domestic credit is becoming more involved in local economic development, even if it is considered an expensive resource. The loans are presented as a resource available for various “actors” of the local community – individuals ...
Ileana-Cosînzeana VELICU
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Public pensions: the multiplier effect [PDF]
Public pension funds can play a role not only in ensuring retirees’ economic security, but also in promoting local economic-development goals. That’s why increasing numbers of elected officials and trustees are investigating “economically targeted ...
Doug Hoffer
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