Private Finance and Economic Development
Subtitle: City and Regional Investment
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED); Local economic and employment development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9789264034860
Subjects: Finance and Investment; Governance; Rural and Regional Development Urban
Description: City and regional governments as well as development agencies will learn from this report how to develop their own toolbox of instruments and structures for leveraging private finance.  What role can private financing play in local economic development?  To address this issue, this study draws on practical examples from North America and Europe to show how municipal and regional authorities can capitalise on private financing for economic development purposes.  The book is for policy researchers, entrepreneurs, academia and government circles.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Summary of the Conference Proceedings; title: Community Development; title: Small- and medium-sized Enterprises; title: Small- and medium-sized Enterprises; title: Brownfield Redevelopment; title: City Building in North America and Europe; title: Transatlantic Comparisons; title: Conclusion.