Local and regional economic development : renegotiating power under labour
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Local and regional economic development : renegotiating power under labour
Ashgate, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-286) and index
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Description
Since the election of New Labour in 1997, there have been substantial changes made to local and regional economic development policy in the UK. This volume offers an overview, setting the new policies within a wider historic context and suggesting future developments. It examines four of these new policies in depth - regional development agencies, New Deal local partnerships, local learning and skills council, and the Small Business Service and Business link. In doing so, it offers a critical appraisal of how effective these changes have been in tackling issues such as developing human resources, skills and opportunities, developing land infrastructure and sites, capital formation and development, encouraging innovation, entrepreneurship and technological chnage, and enhancing a supportive institutional context.
Table of Contents
- Renegotiating local and regional economic development. Part 1 Power relations: agents and power in the local and regional economy
- interpreting Labour's local and regional economic policy objectives
- the negotiation process. Part 2 Case studies
- regional development agencies
- New Deal
- local learning skills councils and the TECs
- the small business service and business link intiative. Part 3 "Unfinished revolution": power-relations under Labour
- unblocking change - a future agenda.
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