Comparative studies in local economic development
Subtitle: problems in policy implementation
By: edited by Peter B. Meyer.
Contributors: Meyer, Peter B.; Policy Studies Organization.
Series: Contributions in economics and economic history,; no. 144
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Economic development projects -- United States -- Case studies.; Economic development projects -- Great Britain -- Case studies.; Community development -- United States -- Case studies.; Community development -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
Description: Local economic policy and its implementation : case studies of innovative efforts / Peter B. Meyer -- Putting targeted economic development to work : the role of targeted marketing in an economic development program / C. Theodore Koebel and Cara L. Bailey -- Local economic development in a traditional industrial area : the case of the Ruhrgebiet / Gerd Hennings and Klaus R. Kunzmann -- Employee buyouts and loans to preserve jobs : the South Bend experience / Charles Craypo and Jerry Paar -- Policy instruments in west central Scotland and their local authority context / William F. Lever -- Regenerating urban neighborhoods : local people as implementers of economic development policies / Alan McGregor and Andrew A. McArthur -- From Cannery Row to Gold Coast in Baltimore : is this development? / Robert P. Giloth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-191) and index.
"Prepared under the auspices of the Policy Studies Organization, Stuart S. Nagel, publications coordinator."