Promoting sustainable local economic development for all areas: Looking forward or looking back?

Adam Fineberg

Local Economy, 2013, vol. 28, issue 7-8, 914-920

Abstract: A review and analysis of recent attempts to promote local economic development and improve public services that considers the potential role of the ‘growth coalitions’ and ‘smart local government’ project in progressing and creating synergy between these two agendas. A critique of the current growth agenda, as represented by Local Economic Partnerships and the Single Local Growth Fund and whether it connects with the potential growth opportunities that can be realised out of local public service expenditure. A consideration of whether Community Budgets, as the current approach to improving local public services, represent a new managerialism rather than a new ‘transformation’ agenda to better meet the needs and address the well-being of local people. Suggestions are made about how to capture the inherent value, and realise transformational change in the provision of local public service services along the lines of the decade-old ‘growth coalitions’ and ‘smart local government’ project. Also, about adding value by creating synergy between local public service expenditure and the work of Local Economic Partnerships and the Single Local Growth Fund, for the benefit of local citizens and growth.

Keywords: Community Budgets; growth coalitions; Heseltine Review; Local Economic Partnerships; Single Local Growth Fund; smart local government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269094213500751 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:loceco:v:28:y:2013:i:7-8:p:914-920

DOI: 10.1177/0269094213500751

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Local Economy from London South Bank University
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().