Over the last 50 years or so, the world has experienced significant economic and political changes as well as an underlying continuity in patterns of growth and inequality. There has been an increasing awareness that previous undertakings labelled as supplyside, free market, export-based approaches and the like have altered and weakened local and regional economies (Blakely, 1994).

Helmsing, A.H.J.
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Local and Regional Development (LRD)
International Institute of Social Studies

Manuel, Thelma Castillo. (1996, December). Promoting local economic development: A review of city summit best practices. Local and Regional Development (LRD). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2105/9199