Premium
MAKING TRULY COMPETITIVE CITIES – ON THE APPROPRIATE ROLE FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Author(s) -
Collins Alan
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2007.00759.x
Subject(s) - local government , jurisdiction , business , core (optical fiber) , government (linguistics) , local economic development , economic system , economics , economic growth , public administration , political science , engineering , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , law
Much economic and urban research lends increasing support to the view that local government authorities could actually improve their ‘competitiveness’ by not being required to engage in the ‘business’ of local economic development and rather by concentrating on their ‘core’ activities such as maintaining sound, basic infrastructure within their jurisdiction.