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The Often Overlooked Economic Development Strategy: Business Retention and Expansion

Former professor Dr. David Birch of MIT found that up to 80% of job growth in any community is generated by the businesses already located there and not by attraction efforts. Economic development in ...
The Conversation

Community‑based economic development is the key to a strong pandemic recovery

As we emerge from the pandemic, economic recovery is on everyone’s minds. Cities around the world are grappling with the intersecting challenges of inflation, climate change and deep systemic ...
World Bank

Community and Local Development

Community and local development (CLD) programs empower communities to lead local development processes through control over planning decisions, fund management, and project implementation. Experience ...
Forbes

Reauthorizing Economic Development Administration Critical To Business

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Capitol is shown in Washington, DC. (Photo by Stefan Zaklin/Getty Images) The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee recently marked up legislation reauthorizing the ...
Telegraph Herald

Local economic group earns awards for workforce development

Greater Dubuque Development Corp. received recognition from the Mid-America Economic Development Council, a group ...
Next City

How U.S. Cities Lost the Economic Development Plot

This essay was originally published by Common Edge, a nonprofit dedicated to reconnecting architecture and design with the public that it’s meant to serve. In the 1950s, Robert Moses bulldozed a swath ...