Community Economic Development: Policy Formation in the US and UK (Policy Studies Organization Series)

This volume identifies the main considerations in the policy formation process, isolates cross-national commonalities and differences, and discusses the potential for cross-national local economic development policy transfer. Communities in both the US and the UK have tried to come to grips with the problem of local economic development growth. At times the solutions have been quite similar, at other times very different. Business-led community economic development programs promote business interests and try to ensure business growth. Community-based programs, on the other hand, focus on the need for jobs and adequate incomes for its residents. The articles examine local economic developments from a comparative perpective.