Local Economy

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Volume 28, issue 7-8, 2013

Economic development under the Coalition Government pp. 665-678

Lee Pugalis and Gill Bentley

Making space: Putting politics back where it belongs in the construction of city regions in the North of England pp. 679-695

James Rees and Alex Lord

Trends in place-based economic strategies: England’s fixation with ‘fleet-of-foot’ partnerships pp. 696-717

Lee Pugalis and Alan R Townsend

Explicitly permissive? Understanding actor interrelationships in the governance of economic development: The experience of England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships pp. 718-737

Iain Deas, Stephen Hincks and Nicola Headlam

New Labour’s regional experiment: Lessons from the East Midlands pp. 738-751

Martin Quinn

Redeveloping local economic strategy for the post-regionalist era: A contextual benchmarking approach pp. 752-769

Jacob Salder

Emerging city policies: Devolution, deals and disorder pp. 770-785

David Waite, Duncan Maclennan and Tony O’Sullivan

Developing a sub-regional growth strategy: Reflections on recent English experience pp. 786-800

Allan Cochrane, Bob Colenutt and Martin Field

A Whitehall perspective on decentralisation in England’s emerging territories pp. 801-816

Sarah Ayres and Graham Pearce

Where next for neighbourhood regeneration in England? Two years on pp. 817-827

Kevin Broughton, Nigel Berkeley and David Jarvis

Prospects for ‘place-based’ industrial policy in England pp. 828-841

Frank Peck, Stephen Connolly, Jonathan Durnin and Keith Jackson

How to raise the bar on impact evaluation: Challenges for the evaluation of local enterprise partnerships and the regional growth fund in times of austerity pp. 842-851

Mike Chadwick, Peter Tyler and Colin Warnock

Local economic strategy development under Regional Development Agencies and Local Enterprise Partnerships: Applying the lens of the multiple streams framework pp. 852-862

Will Rossiter and Liz Price

Storming or performing? Local Enterprise Partnerships two years on pp. 863-874

Lee Pugalis and Gill Bentley

England’s non-metropolitan cities: The long march to unlocking economic growth pp. 875-883

David Marlow

Competitiveness and the post-regional political economy pp. 884-893

Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson

Growing nowhere: Privileging economic growth in planning policy pp. 894-905

Sarah LJ Longlands

How should we help business grow? Delivering business support pp. 906-910

Dmitry Sivaev

Vince Cable’s Business Bank: A broker’s viewpoint pp. 911-913

Graham Allen

Promoting sustainable local economic development for all areas: Looking forward or looking back? pp. 914-920

Adam Fineberg

Local Enterprise Partnerships to deliver progressive social outcomes pp. 921-926

Jennifer Doyle

Community economic development: Localisation, the key to a resilient and inclusive local economy? pp. 927-931

Karen Leach

Rescaling the State: Devolution and the Geographies of Economic Governance Mark Goodwin, Martin Jones, and Rhys Jones pp. 932-934

Andrew Jones

Economic development 2010–2013: A mid-term assessment pp. 935-947

Lee Pugalis and Gill Bentley

Volume 28, issue 6, 2013

Using community communicators to build trust and understanding between local councils and residents in the United Kingdom pp. 527-538

Matthew Wood and Julie Fowlie

At the sharp end of the credit crisis: A profile of Valleys Credit Union pp. 539-552

Molly Scott Cato, Jan Myers and Steven Howlett

‘Now without my car I don’t know what I’d do’: The transportation needs of older people in rural Lincolnshire pp. 553-566

Michael RM Ward, Peter Somerville and Gary Bosworth

Social enterprises as local development actors pp. 567-579

Robyn Eversole

Enhanced broadband access as a solution to the social and economic problems of the rural digital divide pp. 580-595

Leanne Townsend, Arjuna Sathiaseelan, Gorry Fairhurst and Claire Wallace

Emerging productive economies: Local restructuring in England and Wales, 1998–2012 pp. 596-613

Paul S Jones

Rural tourism and ancient traditions: Evidence from Italian regions pp. 614-626

Raffaele Lagravinese

When it’s gone it’s gone: The politics of the Save Meadowbank Stadium Campaign pp. 627-642

Gavin Reid

‘Ground truths’ and scenarios: Examining and testing regional policy in North West Wales pp. 643-662

Rhydian Fôn James, Peter Midmore and Dennis Thomas

Volume 28, issue 5, 2013

The impact of connectivity technology on home-based business venturing: The case of women in the North East of England pp. 451-470

Pooran Wynarczyk and Jayne Graham

The evaluation of Business Improvement Districts: Questions and issues from the Scottish experience pp. 471-487

Mhairi Donaghy, Anne Findlay and Leigh Sparks

Tax lien sales as local neoliberal governance strategy: The case of Waterbury, Connecticut pp. 488-498

Hilary Botein and C Patrick Heidkamp

Industrial closure, regional development and local planning: Multiple narratives of change from the experience of Longbridge, Birmingham pp. 499-511

Stephen Hall

Planning for the community? The early experiences of the implementation of Edinburgh City Council’s Community Plan pp. 512-524

Chris McWilliams

Volume 28, issue 4, 2013

High-growth firms: More reasons for caution? pp. 355-357

James Derbyshire

Sustainable development and climate change: Beyond mitigation and adaptation pp. 358-368

S Harry and M Morad

Michael Porter’s cluster theory as a local and regional development tool: The rise and fall of cluster policy in the UK pp. 369-383

Jon Swords

The financialisation of urban development: Tax Increment Financing in Newcastle upon Tyne pp. 384-398

Tom Strickland

Economic resilience and entrepreneurship: A case study of the Thessaloniki City Region pp. 399-415

Nick Williams, Tim Vorley and Panayiotis H Ketikidis

Measuring the low carbon economy at the local level: A hybrid approach pp. 416-428

Paul Bishop and Steven Brand

Windfalls, wipeouts, and local economic development: A study of an emerging oil city in West Africa pp. 429-443

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

The urban university as good citizen: The American University of Beirut’s Neighborhood Initiative pp. 444-448

Cynthia Myntti

Volume 28, issue 3, 2013

Localism: Identifying complexities and ways forward for research and practice pp. 237-239

Sarah Skerratt

Localism in Finland: The changing role and current crisis of the Finnish municipal system pp. 240-256

Kjell Andersson and Stefan Sjöblom

New directions in economic development: Localist policy discourses and the Localism Act pp. 257-274

Gill Bentley and Lee Pugalis

Localism, voluntarism and devolution: Experiences, opportunities and challenges in a changing policy context pp. 275-290

Mike Woolvin and Irene Hardill

The moral basis of a forward society: Relations and forms of localism in Italy pp. 291-303

Giorgio Osti

Divining the local: Mobility, scale and fragmented development pp. 304-319

Dean B Carson and Andreas Koch

Working with communities-of-place: Complexities of empowerment pp. 320-338

Sarah Skerratt and Artur Steiner

Localism and the community shop pp. 339-349

Eric Calderwood and Keri Davies

Hugh Atkinson, Local Democracy, Civic Engagement and Community. From New Labour to the Big Society pp. 350-352

Deian Hopkin

Volume 28, issue 2, 2013

Resurgent African cities? pp. 139-141

Ivan Turok

Securing the resurgence of African cities pp. 142-157

Ivan Turok

Mining FDI and urban economies in sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the possible linkages pp. 158-169

Glen Robbins

Urban economies, urban livelihoods and natural resource-based economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: The constraints of a liberalized world economy pp. 170-187

Deborah Potts

Urban tourism, economic regeneration and inclusion: Evidence from South Africa pp. 188-202

Christian M Rogerson

Climate and environmental change and the potential for greening African cities pp. 203-217

David Simon

The Development Complex, rural economy and urban-spatial and economic development in Juba, South Sudan pp. 218-230

Richard Grant and Daniel Thompson

Bekker S and Therborn G (eds) Power and Powerlessness: Capital Cities in Africa pp. 231-233

Ivan Turok

Volume 28, issue 1, 2013

People-based versus place-based policies: The 2009 World Development Report pp. 3-8

Ivan Turok

The return of place in Scottish social policy pp. 9-16

Peter Matthews

Social innovation: An exploration of the barriers faced by innovating organizations in the social economy pp. 17-34

Dominic Chalmers

Investigating A8 migration using data from the Worker Registration Scheme: Temporal, spatial and sectoral trends pp. 35-50

David McCollum

Agglomeration economies in the neighbourhood? Evidence from German cities pp. 51-65

Uwe Neumann, Helmut Geißler and Peter Jakubowski

‘Beyond the golden triangle’: Biotechnology incubation in the East Midlands region of the UK pp. 66-84

David J Smith and Michael Ehret

The effectiveness of the microcredit programme in Bangladesh pp. 85-98

M Twyeafur Rahman and Hafiz TA Khan

Understanding economic development as a Deleuzian ‘plateau’ pp. 99-113

James E Rowe

The survival half-life of firms and its effect on economic development pp. 114-122

James Derbyshire

Regional disparities in Andhra Pradesh, India pp. 123-135

A Reddy and Bantilan McS