Download or read book Enhancing Local Economic Impact written by UNCTAD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This note provides guidance on how to ensure that an agricultural investment generates positive impacts on the local economy by encouraging and supporting opportunities arising for individuals, farmers, businesses, and institutions. Investments can have a transformative impact on the communities where they are located. Much of this impact can be long term, and go beyond the immediate activities of the investors, through economic linkages and spillover effects. Positive impacts on the local economy are not automatic: the policies and practices of the investor and the government influence outcomes. Careful management and choice of agricultural investments, and provision of complementary initiatives by investors and by governments, can maximize the benefits arising from economic linkages and spillovers while minimizing the risks.
Download or read book Local Economic Development in the 21st Centur written by Daphne T Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive look at local economic development and public policy, placing special emphasis on quality of life and sustainability. It draws extensively on case studies, and includes both mainstream and alternative perspectives in dealing with economic growth and development issues. The contributions of economic theories and empirical research to the policy debates, and the relationship of both to quality of life and sustainability are explored and clarified.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Culture and Local Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights the impact of culture on local economies and the methodological issues related to its identification.
Download or read book Tourism and Local Economic Development written by Harold Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is claimed to represent 9% of global GDP so how can the positive economic impact of tourism be increased at the local level, whilst minimising negative impacts? Tourism and Local Economic Development is a groundbreaking text that critically addresses the theories which seek to explain the contribution which tourism can make to economic development, and then moves on to look at a wide range of initiatives and approaches to identify how the local economic benefits of tourism can be maximised. * How can tourism be harnessed to create thriving destinations and to improve the livelihoods of the communities who live with tourism? * How can we intervene to increase the contribution which tourism makes to creating better places for people to live in? * How can tourism be used to benefit the people who live in the destinations we visit? It discusses potential mechanisms: procurement and the supply chain for tourism businesses, employment, direct sales to tourists and pro-poor tourism and reviews some of the issues, such as all inclusives, second home ownership, disintermediation, tax, regulation and certification and slum tourism. The concluding part focuses on practice: how to structure an intervention to increase local economic benefit and to report impacts. Essential reading for all students of tourism and practitioners wishing to use tourism more effectively to create local economic development and improve livelihoods.
Download or read book Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2020 Rebuilding Better written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of COVID-19 on local jobs and workers dwarfs those of the 2008 global financial crisis. The 2020 edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development considers the short-term impacts on local labour markets as well as the longer-term implications for local development.
Download or read book World Class written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-01-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to turn globalization into opportunity--to grow new businesses, create new jobs, revitalize regions, and develop international cities of the future.
Download or read book Local Economic Impact written by Benjamin William Riall and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Local Economic Impact of Wal Mart written by Michael J. Hicks and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been other books on Wal-Mart, none has provided scholarly economic analysis of the impact of this retail giant. "The Local Economic Impact of Wal-Mart" offers significant empirical evidence which highlights important questions.
Download or read book Promoting Local Economic Development Through Strategic Planning Toolkit written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2005 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning Local Economic Development written by Edward J. Blakely and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the theories of local economic development that are relevant to dilemmas facing communities today, this third edition expands on issues such as the planning process, analytical techniques and high-technology strategies.
Download or read book Sustainable Communities written by Rhonda Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword written by Senator Bernie Sanders What is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions. Citing Burlington, Vermont's remarkable rise to award-winning status, this book explores the balance of community planning, social enterprise development, energy and environment, food systems and cultural well-being. Aimed at policymakers, development practitioners, students, and citizens, this book describes which and how multiple influences facilitate the creation of a local, durable and truly sustainable economy. The authors hope to inspire others by sharing this story of what can be done in the name of community economic development.
Download or read book Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2018 Preparing for the Future of Work written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development examines the impact of technological progress on regional and local labour markets. It sheds light on widening regional gaps on job creation, workers education and skills, as well as inclusion in local economies.
Download or read book The Role of Local Government in Economic Development written by Jonathan Q. Morgan and published by Unc School of Government. This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the findings from a mail survey of local government economic development activities that was sent to all 540 municipalities and 100 counties in North Carolina. An important part of the analysis examines whether cities and counties differ significantly in their economic development efforts and whether smaller jurisdictions employ different types of development strategies and tools than larger ones. The survey findings also highlight the barriers that local governments face in promoting economic development and identify important technical assistance needs and gaps in local capacity.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Community Capacity Building Creating a Better Future Together written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents and analyses interesting recent developments in the field of community capacity building, in a variety of OECD and non-OECD countries. The focus is on how CCB has effected change in three major areas: social policy, local economic policy and environmental policy.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Boosting Social Enterprise Development Good Practice Compendium written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social enterprises are long-standing agents of inclusive growth and democratization of the economic and social spheres, and they have proved resilient to economic adversity all the while addressing socio-economic challenges in innovative ways, re-integrating people back to the labour market, and
Download or read book Developing Local Economies How to Create Jobs Expand the Tax Base and Improve Opportunities for All written by Francis X. Mahady and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political mantra of the 21st century is jobs, jobs, jobs! But how do states and local communities create thejobs, economic opportunity, and a tax base thatimproves civic life for everyone? While cities can't create private-sector jobs directly, they can create the conditions that generate jobs. And that's what Developing Local Economies: How to Create Jobs, Expand the Tax Base, and Improve Opportunities for All is about. Drawing upon author Francis X. Mahady's 40+ years of experience in economic development and planning, the book explains: What a local economy is, and how it compares to the regional, state, and national economies How to craft an economic development strategy for your community that enhances economic opportunities for residents How to engage a city's business leaders--who already have political clout and credibility--to lead improvement initiatives Whyit's critical to revitalize downtowns and waterfronts How to attract businesses and real estate developers How to create economic and fiscal impact analyses of development projects Developing Local Economies covers the topics that both professional and lay participants in local economic development must deal with on a day-to-day basis to create an economically vibrant community. Besides hands-on, actionable information, Mahady reveals the secrets, myths, misunderstandings, successes, and failures of economic development learned over the course of decades helping communities develop a thriving economic base.He backs his advice with a combination of straightforward analytic techniques and case studies from his extensive professional experience. Developing Local Economies is written for economic and community developers, city officials, state and local politicians, policy analysts, bankers, real estate developers, Chamber of Commerce members, entrepreneurs, and influential businesspeople who understand that what's good for their community is good for their businesses.Itwill helpcommunities develop successful projects that end up improving the quality of life in myriad ways."
Download or read book Beyond Experiments in Development Economics written by J. Edward Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects and policies on local economies. Projects and policies often create spillovers within project areas. LEWIE uses simulation methods to quantify these spillovers. It has become a complement to randomized control trials (RCTs), as governments and donors become interested in documenting impacts beyond the treated, comparing the likely impacts of alternative interventions, and designing complementary interventions to influence program and policy impacts. It is also a tool for impact evaluation where RCTs are not feasible. Chapters 1-4 motivate and present the basics of impact simulation, including how to design a LEWIE model, how to estimate the model, and how to obtain the necessary data. The remaining chapters provide a diversity of interesting real-world applications and extensions of the basic models. The applications include evaluations of the impacts of cash transfers for the poor, ecotourism, global food-price shocks, irrigation projects, migration, and corruption. Each chapter provide readers with the tools they need to conduct their own local economy-wide impact evaluations. All models and data used in this book are available on-line.
