“Community†Economic Development in Knowsley, Merseyside

Philip Boland
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Philip Boland: Department of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WA

Local Economy, 1999, vol. 14, issue 3, 214-231

Abstract: The European Union's long-term goal for regional policy is economic and social cohesion. In Merseyside the Union has been engaged in a range of policies, through Objective 1 status, to stimulate regional economic development. In view of the current government's concern to promote capacity building and community economic development, an interesting aspect of Objective 1 is Pathways to Integration, a policy that seeks to tackle the problems of high unemployment and social exclusion across Merseyside through community economic development and capacity building. This paper contrasts the rhetoric of the Pathways literature with the reality of its local delivery in the Knowsley Borough of Merseyside. It argues that the reality of Pathways, particularly in relation to community involvement, does not match the rhetoric and the local delivery has been problematic, and that this experience has important lessons for local economic development strategies that include a large element of capacity building.

Date: 1999
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