Local Economic Development Policies

Authors

Timothy J. Bartik, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchFollow

Upjohn Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6238-8181

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Series

Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 03-91

**Published Version**

In Management Policies in Local Finance, 5th ed., edited by Richard J. Aronson and Eli Schwartz. Washington, D.C.: International City/County Management Association, 2004, pp. 355-390. Under title Economic Development

DOI

10.17848/wp03-91

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.

Issue Date

January 2003

Subject Areas

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; Local labor markets; Regional policy and planning; Business and tax incentives