Economic development

for 28 years and currently holds the position of executive director of Champaign Economic Development Corporation. He has a bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture and master degree in Urban Planning concentrating on economic development from the UIUC. The reason I chose him as practitioner to interview is that he has inspired me to learn more about economic development and process of creating and building development projects which I really want to do in my life. Taking his class, I’ve…

For long, the policy prescription by the Washington Consensus played a pivotal role in the development of many African nations. The Washington Consensus was a neo-liberal approach largely adopted by international financial institutions from about the 1980’s through the first decade of the new millennium. With many African countries economic policy thinking largely externally shaped, it was no surprise that the so called Washington Consensus became the doctrine of the day. Many nations in Africa,…

book The Tyranny of Experts is a complicated analysis of the problems of the development of Third World states. His conclusion is that Western nations seeking to make an impact for the better on the economic development of the Third World cannot do so without supporting democratic goals for these countries (Easterly Chapter 14). Dealing with the often dictatorial leaders of the Third World may improve economic development over time, but it will not better the poorer people of these countries nor…

revitalize the surrounding area with affordable housing contained within the hospital buildings. One specific group, Neighborhood Women, led by Jen Peterson, a woman from the community who has united the supporters out of a vision of the common goal of development, has been at the forefront of the fight to reuse the buildings. This group has…

Terms like “development”, the division between “developed” and “developing” countries and the desirability of industrial growth, are for the most part, taken for granted in mainstream and even some critical theories of development. However, these terms are not neutral descriptors, rather they are part of a larger regime of development discourse and are implicated in the maintenance of unequal global power relations. Building on the Foucauldian concept of discourse, anthropologists like Escobar…

the unsafe world which lay before him, he can now go and creatively develop plumbing systems, with local materials, that can ultimately bring about health for our friends in need who reside in the Philippines. It is an approach that requires the development of our human resource. It has caused a man who had no desire to be a plumber to undergo extensive training in an occupation that is considered lowly by most. Yet the result is a competent field agent whom holds the ability to bring about a…

problems. The main arising problems in the town of Chamonix due to its tourism is traffic, damage to landscape, amenities become tourist-centred so locals are outpriced, noise pollution, skiers who use slopes increase risk of avalanches, seasonal economic booms making business difficult during off-season times, overcrowding beyond carrying capacity of the town, damaged wildlife, demand for second homes leads to out pricing locals and the increased carbon output causing snow line to rise. The…

30.290% Republican, and 0.796% independent. Economic: Edinburg Economic Development Corporation’s Executive Director, Ramiro Garza Jr., Reports that Edinburg has generated over $1.14 million in local sales taxes for the month of April 2009. This figure is up 11% compared to $1,033,765.77 produced in the same month in 2008. The local sales taxes generated by the city’s one and a half cent local sales tax and the half-cent economic development sales tax that is administered by the EEDC.…

Increasing access to quality education, including the marginalized would lead to development, reduces poverty, improve the wellbeing, and freedom of people. Constantly, denied quality education access for the marginalized children, according to Stark (2009), compels them to a limited life span. Children from poor families suffer from poor health, malnutrition, school uncertainties, dirty water, and poor sanitation, and above all, they are exposed to illness, exploitation, injustice, abuse,…

1. What are the developmental phases for American cities? Briefly describe each stage of development discussing the most important features for city development. There are five developmental phases for American cities. The earliest phase of urban development begins with the frontier urbanization. This period in time is characterized by the U.S. economy attempting to organize itself until independence begins to take place. The second phase (1790-1840) falls under the wraths of “merchantilism,”…