Devolution, Regionalism and Local Economic Development

Local economic development via urbanism lever: the case of Lebanon

The present paper analyses local economic development issues through the prism of urban governance theories and models. From theoretical corpora to empirical LED case studies, we emphasise, through the anarchy paradigm, the privatisation tendencies of urban planning and development projects in local territories. We have taken an interest in comparative analysis of principal concepts and ...

Experimental Regionalism and the Dilemmas of Regional Economic Policy

An earlier version of this paper was presented to the June 1995 OECD international seminar in Paris on Local Systems of Small Firms and Job Creation. Although it does not address contrasts in the corporate governance systems of the major industrial countries directly, it does present in compact form a view of differences in the Japanese, German and Italian, and US production systems as these ca...

Embracing Locality in Local Economic Development

Scholarly research in urban and regional economic development has been heading unwittingly toward a postmodern embrace of locality. The literature on global economic restructuring, in ̄ uenced by regulation theory, has produced a wealth of case studies that exemplify the importance of the local. The public policy literature, having documented the decreasing in ̄ uence of the nation state, demonst...

Communities and Workforce Development in the Era of Devolution

Implementing local economic development in Ghana: Multiple actors and rationalities