Publication Groups:

Accountability Newsletter
Critiques the common practice of offering tax incentives to attract and retain businesses.
(contains 46 publications)

Publications:

A Progressive Economic Development Agenda For Shared Prosperity: Taking The High Road And Closing The Low
Published June 01, 2006
Describes a comprehensive high road agenda for economic development as well as available policy tools to close off the low road: the low wage, low regulation, low tax environment that minimizes costs for businesses at the expense of workers, infrastructure and, ultimately, economic growth itself.
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At What Cost? North Carolina's "Budget" For Economic Development
Published May 01, 2008
Greater transparency lies at the heart of good government. With fuller disclosure, lawmakers, courts, citizens, and the media can significantly improve their oversight of public policies and spur programs toward higher impact and cost-effectiveness. Nowhere is more "sunshine" needed than in the area of economic development, one of the fastest growing spending areas of state and local governments. Most state policymakers have little information on how much they are spending annually on a variety of on- and off-budget economic development programs.
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Bidding For Business: How Cities And States Sell Themselves Short (1994)
Published January 01, 1994
Proposes guidelines and offers recommendations about how to reform the use of tax incentives to attract businesses.
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Building Competitive Rural Communities: Lessons From Mississippi (1990)
Published January 01, 1990
Chronicles how three communities worked with the state to craft strategic plans for local economic development.
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Building Healthy Communities: Resources For Compatible Development (1997)
Published January 01, 1997
Presents tools, resources and case studies that blend economic development with environmental protection.
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Common Assets: Asserting Our Rights To Our Shared Inheritance (2000)
Published January 01, 2000
Proposes a new class of ownership in the United States in which shared resources are owned by everyone and managed to sustain the resources and equitably distribute their benefits.
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Community-Based Organizations And Business Networks: New Ideas For Creating Job Opportunities For Inner-City Residents (1996)
Published January 01, 1996
Describes how community-based organizations can increase the competitiveness of small- and medium-sized firms.
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Creating Jobs: Public And Private Strategies For The Hard-to-Employ (1999)
Published January 01, 1999
Outlines public and private strategies to supplement job growth and advance the labor market in inner-cities.
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Development Report Card For The States CD-ROM
Published January 18, 2007
The 2007 DRC is available for free at www.cfed.org/go/drc. (Go here for previous DRC web editions from 2001-2006).  Additionally, the thirteen editions prior to 2001 are all available in PDF form on one CD-ROM.
[$20.00] Thirteen previous editions are all available in PDF form on one CD-ROM.
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Getting Our Money's Worth? An Evaluation Of The Economic Model Used For Awarding State Business Subsidies
Published March 21, 2007
This report explores concerns about the costs and benefits of North Carolina’s business incentive efforts and seeks to educate policymakers, the media, and citizens about the use of economic and fiscal impact models, which are key tools of accountability.
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Ideas In Development: Growing Assets, Expanding Opportunities (1999)
Published January 01, 1999
Sets forth an inspiring and ambitious agenda—from spirituality to entrepreneurship to trade agreements—through various essays by an array of writers.
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Ideas In Development: Proceeding To Action (2000)
Published January 01, 2000
Captures the spirit and synthesizes the main themes of a dynamic conference to celebrate CFED's 20th anniversary and to consider the Growing Assets, Expanding Opportunities agenda.
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Improving Your Business Climate: A Guide To Smarter Public Investments In Economic Development (1996)
Published January 01, 1996
Explores taxation, incentives, regulation, education, infrastructure and modernization in detail.
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Jobs By The Poor, For The Poor: Profiles Of Community Innovation (1996)
Published January 01, 1996
Profiles 20+ programs and policies that simulate economic independence for and by low-income people.
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Millennium Focus: Minority Economic Growth Through Trade (1996)
Published January 01, 1996
Makes a case for expending additional effort to include minority-owned companies in trade development programs.
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Pie In The Sky: The Battle For Atmospheric Scarcity Rent (2000)
Published January 01, 2000
Challenges ideas that address climate issues but do not adequately protect the poor and others from increased energy costs; presents a public policy framework to equitably and sustainably manage the sky.
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Profits, Productivity, And Pollution Prevention: Enabling Better Environmental Practices To Become Standard Business Practices (1997)
Published January 01, 1997
Explores ways that environmental and economic development concerns can better integrate their goals and services.
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Regional Performance Benchmarks System (1993)
Published January 01, 1993
Includes a policymaker's guide and user's manual to walk through a methodology and database so that economic developers can compare and contrast their characteristics with other similar areas.
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Rethinking Rural Development (1993)
Published January 01, 1993
Focuses on the development of smarter, more agile rural institutions and regional strategies.
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Rethinking Urban Economic Development (1997)
Published January 01, 1997
Provides policymakers with a basic understanding and tools necessary to create more dynamic and inclusive local and regional economies.
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Taken For Granted: How Grant Thornton's Business Climate Index Leads States Astray (1999)
Published January 01, 1999
Dissects the underlying assumptions and predictive power to reveal exaggerated and poorly measured findings.
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Visions For Russell County: A Community Plan For Compatible Economic Development (1997)
Published January 01, 1997
Outlines an action plan to improve the economic, social and environmental health of one rural community.
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