Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/172426 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 03-91
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
This chapter seeks to provide useful advice for local government policy towards economic development programs. The chapter: reviews the size and scope of local economic development programs in the United States; critically analyzes the various rationales offered for these programs; makes recommendations for what local policy should do about business attraction and incentives, business retention, new business development, high technology development, brownfield development, distressed neighborhoods, and downtowns; and discusses how local economic development programs should be organized, managed, and evaluated.
Subjects: 
local
regional
economic
development
Bartik
JEL: 
R58
R38
R11
R23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Additional Information: 
A revised version of this paper appears as "Economic Development" in J. Richard Aronson and Eli Schwartz, eds. 2004. Management Policies in Local Government Finance (5th Ed.). Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association, pp. 355-390.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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