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: aexplores the impact and functioning of economic development agencies; amakes 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; acompares the 'institutional architectures' of economic development in Australia, England, the United States and Northern Ireland; aanalyses 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.
Contents: International comparisons of local and regional economic development ~ Andrew Beer, Graham Haughton and Alaric Maude; Understanding international divergence and convergence in local and regional economic development ~ Graham Haughton, Andrew Beer and Alaric Maude; Local and regional economic development organisations in international comparison ~ Andrew Beer, Graham Haughton and Alaric Maude; Local and regional economic development in England ~ Graham Haughton; Local economic development in the United States ~ Terry Clower; Local and regional economic development organisations in Australia ~ Alaric Maude; Local and regional economic development in a 'post-conflict' society: lessons from Northern Ireland ~ Rachel Naylor and Terry Robson; Local and regional economic development: improving our understanding and advancing our policy frameworks ~ Andrew Beer, Graham Haughton and Alaric Maude.
Accessing your eBook through Kortext
Once purchased, you can view your eBook through the Kortext app, available to download for Windows, Android and iOS devices. Once you have downloaded the app, your eBook will be available on your Kortext digital bookshelf and can even be downloaded to view offline anytime, anywhere, helping you learn without limits.
In addition, you'll have access to Kortext's smart study tools including highlighting, notetaking, copy and paste, and easy reference export.
To download the Kortext app, head to your device's app store or visit https://app.kortext.com to sign up and read through your browser.
NB: eBook is only available for a single-user licence (i.e. not for multiple / networked users).