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Bibliography on urban development
In urban areas, following the emergence of pockets of high unemployment and poverty, urban decay and riots, the local approach was focussed on the analysis of distressed neighbourhoods and on policy responses based on regeneration and revitalisation. These areas have been the subject of surveys, databases of deprivation statistics (e.g. the UK’s Index of multiple […]
Bibliography on endogenous development
endogenous development Endogenous development This theory or approach has been based on a critique of 50s and 60s regional development theories and policies which produced unsatisfactory and unbalanced results in relation to expectations and to financial resources allocated by national governments. These ‘traditional regional policies’ emphasized the key role of mobility of capital and labour […]
Bibliography on third sector and third system
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Bibliography on financial instruments and financial engineering
financial engineering Financial instruments and financial engineering CRIDEL 1994 Valeur ajoutée et ingénierie du développement local, CE, DG REGIO Sevilla seminar report March 1993; and relevant final evaluation reports OECD2003. Private finance and Economic development: City and Regional Investment Bartik, T. 1995 Economic Development Incentive Wars. Employment Research. Darche, Benjamin. 1997 Financing Mechanisms at the […]
Bibliography on territorial employment pacts
Territorial employment pacts were a programme of 84 urban and rural partnership groupings launched in 1997 in the face of the employment crisis. Each one was granted a small amount of technical assistance (normally €250,000) to produce a strategy and action plan. The Pacts were supported by the three major funds of the day (ERDF […]
Bibliography from World Bank LED primer
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Bibliography on social capital
social capital The well known seminal work by Robert Putnam – based on research conducted in Italy and later in the USA- was based on vitality and engagement of civil societies and citizens as stakeholders in local/community/neighbourhoods development. Social capital commonly refers to the stocks of social trust, norms, and networks that people can draw […]
Bibliography from ADETEF study
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Bibliography on small firms, entrepreneurship and job creation
smes see also especially the EQUAL compendium on inclusive entrepreneurship R. Berger (ed.) 1982 Investing in America, Initiatives for community and economic development, David Birch 1983 Job-creation in America, how our smallest companies put the most people to work Free Press, Macmillan, Rolf Hickman 1988 The job creation Process, a synthesis of US Research and […]
OECD LEED Programme
Created in the 1980s to help tackle unemployment, the LEED (Local Economic and Employment Development) is operated separately from OECD’s main activities funded by the Member States of OECD. LEED has regions and cities as its main members and operates at the sub national level. OECD LEED has identified themes, such as entrepreneurship, innovation and […]
Bibliography on rural development
rural development Rural development In rural areas, local initiatives were closely connected with the creation of new firms and development in agriculture processing, other industries, tourism and business, personal, social and public services. They have been supported, in several Member States by setting up Rural Development Agencies, the creation of priority areas for specially deprived […]