Creating an Economic Development Action Plan: A Guide for Development Professionals Revised and Updated Edition

by Roger E. Hamlin and Thomas S. Lyons

Book Overview

Despite strong U.S. and Canadian economies, economic development remains an important local governmental function, partly to alleviate the persistent poverty that plagues some areas and partly to compete with the activities of neighboring local governments. Those cities, metropolitan areas, rural regions, and states that do not plan effectively lose the battle for economic survival. Local economic development has become a complex and challenging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027596809X
• ISBN13: 9780275968090
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"