The use of cultural institutions in tourism as an incentive for local development - the case of National Museum in Wroclaw

The propensity of municipal governments to offer incentives for new development is empirically examined, drawing upon both the literature on local economic development policy and studies of local residential restrictions. The data are from a 1998 mail survey of city managers in California in which officials assessed the likelihood that their local governments would offer financial assistance or zoning changes to various types of new business and residential land uses in their communities. Multivariate analysis indicates that local conditions resulting from past growth patterns—commuting times, job/population balance, and housing affordability—play an important role in shaping respondents’ assessments as to whether their cities are likely to grant incentives. Such factors deserve an important role in explaining local government growth orientations, alongside measures of community status, political institutions, and the strength of progrowth coalitions.

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

Private Sector-led Urban Development Projects. Management, Partnerships and Effects in the Netherlands and the UK

The coastal areas of Croatia have been in the process of transformation for more than three decades. Their social, recreational, and economic function is often not in the function of regional and local development. A special problem is buildings, often empty, unused, and left to devastation as an example of the complexity of the conversion process. Coastal areas in the Croatian part of the Adriatic are characterized by a very mild climate, attractiveness, and investment potential. These are features that enable development but at the same time represent a trap of transitional and post-transitional growth, with intensive exploitation, concreting and development. This brings negative development effects in the long run and loses its developmental meaning. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the social opportunities and economic strength of the devastated coastal area with special reference to former military areas. The aim of this paper is to determine the possibilities of protection against increasingly aggressive exploitation of space and capital construction, which results in the destruction of the environment. The special goal is to determine the development scenario of revaluation of space and real estate that is predominantly owned by state on the case study of the city of Pula.

On the basis of available evidence we cannot clearly establish a causal relationship between rail transit and changes in land use and development patterns. At best, such changes would seem to occur only in the presence of other favorable factors, such as supportive local land use policies and development incentives, availability of developable land and a good investment climate. In any event, however, determining the precise extent of rail investment's effect on urban structure is less important than assessing the role it could play in an overall strategy for reaching larger urban goals.

This research explores the relative effectiveness of a comprehensive set of local economic development incentives and focuses on two questions: What contributions do common development tools make to the economic health of municipalities?; and, Are there other types of local activities, not typically considered as development tools, that might be more effective in contributing to local economic prosperity? It finds that the factors most consistently and positively related to economic health are investments in the downtown, spending on basic local public services, and using no economic development incentives at all. These findings suggest one primary policy recommendation: the wisest course of action for most cities would be to eschew particularized development incentives, especially those that require tax expenditures.

ABSTRACTTax increment financing (TIF) and other development incentives have become American cities’ primary means of encouraging local economic development. However, these incentives typically receive less oversight than traditional government spending, potentially leaving them open to corruption and abuse. This article presents a case study of “Team TIF,” a novel community–academic partnership focused on government transparency and racial equity in the use of TIF and other incentives. We begin by describing TIF and tax abatement in the St. Louis context, including specific examples of their misuse. We then present the online and offline strategies that Team TIF has used to educate the public on this issue. We close with a discussion of possible local and state-level reforms.

The sport events are very different for the people involved in the meeting (foreigners or national, regional, or local people) and the locations and now are in very crisis. After a review of literature on the effects of sport events, the chapter would suggest how to take into account sporting events after COVID-19. In this context, the chapter is aimed to assessing to impact the destinations through the methodology of case study. The research focused particularly on the project of the Italian Golf Federation for the organization of the Ryder Cup 2022 and assumed the economic, social, and environmental effects of this event on tourist system of local and regional scale. The golf events, nevertheless, can be easier to organize than other sporting events that take place, for example, in arenas and with great public access. The golf events, in fact, can involve a single person during the game and can play on air and be a great encouragement to promote local sustainable development (Fyall & Jago, 2007). The chapter, at least, is aimed to suggest the new policy to implement sport events to promote a new form of tourism, offering new incentives for local sustainable development of regional community, including all the participants to the events.

Sustainability: The Journal of RecordVol. 5, No. 1 Research and SolutionsResolving Community Concerns over Local Wind Power Development in UtahEdwin R. Stafford and Cathy L. HartmanEdwin R. StaffordSearch for more papers by this author and Cathy L. HartmanSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:10 Feb 2012https://doi.org/10.1089/SUS.2012.9990AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byBeyond the public in controversies: A systematic review on social opposition and renewable energy actorsEnergy Research & Social Science, Vol. 91From NIMBY to acceptance: Toward a novel framework — VESPA — For organizing and interpreting community concernsRenewable Energy, Vol. 86Fiscal and economic impacts of state incentives for wind energy development in the Western United StatesRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 34NIMBYism revisited: public acceptance of wind energy in the United States3 October 2013 | WIREs Climate Change, Vol. 4, No. 6 Volume 5Issue 1Feb 2012 Information©2012 by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.To cite this article:Edwin R. Stafford and Cathy L. Hartman.Resolving Community Concerns over Local Wind Power Development in Utah.Sustainability.Feb 2012.38-43.http://doi.org/10.1089/SUS.2012.9990Published in Volume: 5 Issue 1: February 10, 2012PDF download

This article clarifies the key issues and findings relevant to public policy toward promoting local economic development through tax incentives and other business incentives. It defines incentives as public policies that, in addition to being aimed at affecting business decisions, are more or less customized to individual businesses and more or less discretionary. It reveals how tax incentives vary with incentive design. This includes financing, business target, the timing of assistance, hiring practices, and the accountability of businesses. It addresses the question of how such business incentives should be regulated and designed by different levels of government in order to maximize social benefits and, in particular, in order to increase efficiently per capita earnings. Finally, it explores the implications for federal, state, and local policy toward business incentives.

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Measures and Transliteration 1. Institutional Foundations of Chinese Economic Growth: An Introduction State and Development A Problem of Agency Property Rights and Economic Growth Local State Corporatism Institutional Reform, Incentives, and Change Precis of the Study 2. Reassigning Property Rights over Revenue: Incentives for Rural Industrialization Dividing Property Rights Decollectivization and the Loss of Income Fiscal Reform and Rights to the Residual Credible Commitment From Limited Indirect Extractions to Direct Taxation Fiscal Incentives for Local Development 3. Strategies of Development: Variation and Evolution in Rural Industry Intervening Incentives The Character of Rural Industrial Growth in the 1980s The Logic of Collectively Owned Enterprise Development Management and Ownership in the 1990s Changing Ownership Forms in Rural Industry 4. Local State Corporatism: The Organization of Rapid Economic Growth Maoist Legacy as the Foundation The Local Corporate State Adapting Maoist Institutions to Market Production Adapting Local State Corporatism to Private Enterprise The Evolution of Local State-Led Development 5. Principals and Agents: Central Regulation or Local Control Overlapping Lines of Authority The Corporate Nature of Local Regulation Local Appropriation of Central Controls 6. From Agents to Principals: Increasing Resource Endowments and Local Control Regulation of Extra budgetary Funds Economic Retrenchment and a Test of Central Control The Erosion of Credit Controls Local Corporate Interests and Collusion Nonbank Sources of Capital The Limits of Central Control in a Changing Economic Context 7. The Political Basis for Economic Reform: Concluding Reflections The Security of Property Rights and Economic Growth The Political Consequences of Economic Reform Local State Corporatism and Central Control in a Transitional System Remaining Questions Appendix A. Research and Documentation The Interview Sample The Interview Procedure Limitations Appendix B. Changes in China's Fiscal System Bibliography Index

The main role of local development policy is to create a favorable business environment and new jobs, thus contributing to economic development. Creating a positive business environment to act as a pull factor for new businesses is of great importance, because entrepreneurship conduces to the rise in the supply of goods and to an increase in citizens’ income and revenues of local budgets. This paper therefore examines the main goals of economic development in the towns and municipalities of the Republic of Croatia, as well as the tools used by local governments to encourage entrepreneurship and new businesses. Using a questionnaire, mayors and deputies of towns and municipalities were surveyed, and the sample covered 131 towns and municipalities. The research methodology included a descriptive analysis and the Kruskal–Wallis test. The results indicate that improving the quality of life of the residents, creating new jobs, and retaining the residents in the town or municipality were identified as the most important goals of economic development. To encourage entrepreneurship and new jobs, towns and municipalities most often simplify regulations, reduce local taxes, and introduce various benefits and incentives. The contribution of the paper is manifested in providing useful guidance to local governments to improve the business environment.

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