A Case Study of the Enterprise Zone Program: “EZ†Avenue to Minority Economic Development?

Sherri Leronda Wallace
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Sherri Leronda Wallace: State University of New York at Buffalo

Economic Development Quarterly, 1999, vol. 13, issue 3, 259-265

Abstract: This article explores Pennsylvania’s enterprise zone program as an economic development strategy in one city—Philadelphia. Given the underlying corporate-centered focus of economic development policies, it focuses on whether such policies can effectively reduce the high rate of joblessness for central-city residents as well as increase the rate of business development for minority business owners. To have a long-term impact on minority communities, economic development policies should identify ways to increase minority economic development through entrepreneurship and job creation strategies.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1177/089124249901300305

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