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9780275937515

Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners

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  • ISBN13:

    9780275937515

  • ISBN10:

    0275937518

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1991-02-28
  • Publisher: Praeger Pub Text
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Summary

This new edition updates and expands the author's classic work, which has become a standard for professionals and students in public administration, urban and regional planning, and regional economics. Bendavid-Val provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented book on the state of the art of regional and local economic planning, written in a straightforward style that requires no extensive background. Included are thorough discussions of planning methods, covering aggregate regional analysis, intraregional analysis, and project identification and evaluation, as well as approaches to development planning.

Author Biography

AVROM BENDAVID-VAL is Research Associate at the Center for Development Policy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of a number of books, including three previous editions of this work.

Table of Contents

The Economic and Development Context<BR>
Regional Development in the National Context<BR>
Inside the Region<BR>
Project Interventions for Regional Development<BR>
Methods of Aggregate Regional Analysis<BR>
The Basic Statistical Compendium<BR>
Income Measures, Income and Product Accounts<BR>
Balance of Payments Statements, Linkages and Flows<BR>
Economy Composition Analysis<BR>
Economic Base Analysis<BR>
Input-Output Analysis<BR>
Aggregate Social Accounts: A Relational Review<BR>
Methods of Intraregional Analysis<BR>
Characteristics of Subareas and Urban Places<BR>
Intraregional Linkages and Flows<BR>
Intraregional Income and Employment Multiplication<BR>
Settlement System Analysis<BR>
Methods of Project Identification and Evaluation<BR>
Project Identification<BR>
Project Evaluation<BR>
Benefit-Cost Analysis<BR>
Approaches to Regional Development Planning<BR>
An Idealized Planning Model<BR>
Applied Regional Approaches<BR>
A General Framework for Regional Planning<BR>
Bibliography<BR>
Index

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