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geocoding:

See The Free Dictionary.com for a definition of geocode as it relates to demographics and the use of geocoding as a marketing tool. The .network glossary has a definition with links to more information about Geospatial Entity Object Code which was first addressed in this section of the resource archive within the context of a system of the US Census Bureau referred to as TIGER/Line filesfor information about the beginning and ending of this nationwide street centerline coverage of the US and its territories, CLICK HERE.

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ghetto demographics:

The thrust of The Network involvement in enterprise and economic development facilitation is intertwined with concerns for understanding the dire situations faced by the world's poor. Demographics that go beyond statistics indicate that oppression and war are more responsible for the enclaves called ghettos than anything else. History has the record of people on the move, trying to escape. As they gathered together and created their communities, appeals for welfare or economic development followed. Questions revolve around what can be done and what is being done that is making a difference. The website, Poverty.SmartLibrary.org, has an article online titled: Rebuilding the Urban Ghetto: Few Economic Development Programs Show Promise by Rebecca Blank, Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Another resource article of interest is titled simply, In The Ghetto, as an online reprint from The New York Times.

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straight welfare:

Dictionary.die.net states that social welfare is ... governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need. The word welfare alone has additional meanings. The Network defines straight welfare in order to completely separate it from enterprise and economic development. Straight welfare may be a voluntary expression of sympathy or generosity or a mandated contribution or sharing, and it may be worth the giving, but can be problematic in situations where it mitigates the desire to improve, develop, grow or otherwise overcome its original justification. Straight welfare is a provision of any kind given to a have not or needy person(s) without imposing a condition or incentive to rise above the situation.

Discussion of welfare along with enterprise and economic development was prompted by questions about informational items listed in Appendix F of the .network glossary. For example, one user asked where to find a resource paper published online as Welfare Economics and Sustainable Development. Thus far we've only found the title listed under the Encyclopedia of Development and Economic Sciences produced by UNESCO. See EOLSS (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems) defined in the glossary appendix.

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Links to economic development information websites

Kudos to Bert Carter of Cary, NC for publishing his webpage shortly after the Internet began to play its major role in economic development. Although Carter's information is apparently no longer kept up-to-date, his page is worthy of mention. It's now used by The Network as an example of how a page can be organized to summarizes enterprise and economic development resourceslink to www.bertcarter.com/usedlinks.html.

Kudos also to Philip O'Keefe for development of his Economic Development Directory. If you are interested in having a free listing at www.ecodevdirectory.com, CLICK HERE. We've been asked how to get in touch with O'Keefe. An email address is available at the website; however, we came up with the following information after a search of the Web.

Philip O'Keefe
Economic Development Directory Company
415 Claremont Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042
973-746-8099 / fax: 913-746-8129
www.ecodevdirectory.com
(source of information)

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local economic development:

The World Bank provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries. It offers a definition of local economic development using the acronym LED and accompanying it with a glossary. The Network glossary also has a page titled Local Economic Development. Dawn Ashbacher of Iowa State University has a summary of her report on managing interlocal economic development networks published online. Interlocal means cooperation or interaction between entities involved in local economic development.

CLICK HERE for links to more World Bank resources in the .network library.

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grossing up:

... as in meaning to gross up employees relocating to areas where the cost of living is higher than where they presently reside. Employers may mean well in upping incomes of relocating employees in order to keep them happy, but should warn them that government may take advantage of the situation to penalize and take away such increases in pay. In other words, employers and employees should investigate together and manage the risk. One income taxing scheme is to place people in higher tax brackets so that they may actually lose money by making a move.

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Relocation ... defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary.

Copy and paste the following italicized text lines to the search engine at the top of this page and Google the Web for information about resouce and service providers ready to help you ... take the misery out of moving. Keep the quotation marks intact when you paste and search. Also, to zero in on a relocation target, substitute the identity of a place of interest to you for the word location where you see it in a suggested text line..

Search the Web for ... relocation services location

Search the Web for ... relocation services national (try putting in a country name here)

Search the Web for ... relocation services North America

Search the Web for ... "relocation directory" consultants services

Search the Web for ... "site selection needs" relocation consulting

Search the Web for ... "site selection" location "business expansion"

Search the Web for ... "site selection" location "business relocation"

Enterprise relocation projects

... may offer the promise of new jobs in places seeking economic development while they challenge the ability of communites in other locations to maintain needed vitality. The economic development section of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities website alludes to the challenge by pointing out that ... (business attraction) was the first economic development strategy, and continues to be a significant part of many local, regional, and state economic development programs (and that another strategy came along later) ... That strategy is business retention and expansion.

Economic development programs in many places are identified as efforts to attract business relocation projects. Efforts include organizing and offering so called relocation incentives. Most programs are based on the fact that relocation is a reality. This has been especially true among large companies that can justify an expensive relocation by recovering over an extended period of time. When operating costs go up for small operations, however, the only choice may be to go out of business. The relocation project that is of the least economic development value are those that are moves within an economy. Strategies for prospect development that includes targeting companies in a relocation mode should include business like risk analysis by economic developers so that it is understood what the true ROI is for the local economy. For example, It is problematic to provide a business retention or jobs retention incentives within an economy without addressing the root cause for companies leaving or going out of business, likewise, to waste a communities wealth on companies that insist on incentives without demonstrating that they are relocating for good reason and are not bringing along their troubles.

(search SLA for risk) / SLA/search/dic/r/risk / eds/ad_n/about.htm

Economic development organizations sometimes attract relocation prospects using government-sanctioned incentives. When such incentives do nothing but shift jobs they may not make sense to ordinary people; nevertheless, politicians and lobbyist are praised and rewarded for making them available. Use the search engine at the top of this page to Google the Web for the following italicized text, keeping the quotation marks intact and substituting the identity of a place of interest to you for the word location ... (copy and paste): "relocation incentives" location

The positive economic development approach is to take care of your own ... a two-way community effort. A top priority for economic developers has to be business retention which they strive for by helping to maintain the best possible labor quality and ethics as well as workforce productiveness. The responsibilities of business are to strive for excellence and apply their vitality to community spirit. Employees and employers alike need to understand customer-speak.

Take the Misery Out of Moving is the title of an article at Office Times.com. It refers to the book, The Small Company Moving Guide, by Diane Touleyrou. The article ends with a 12 point basic checklist. points from her book. Office Times.com also offers a resource paper: Corporate Relocations / How To Do A Green Move. Relocation Business.com did not have its ... links, resources and definitions for business ... published when last checked in 2008.

Bankrate, Inc salvaged a relocation checklist from a guide published by the Small Business Administration (1999). Go to www.bankrate.com/brim/news/moving_ on/Edit/bizmovelist.asp

More about relocation work as it relates to enterprise and economic development.

the hunt for a place for an enterprise to relocate to is a part of the site selection process.

relocation services is defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary

access the Google Directory / Business Relocation

Brad Edmonson

... was editor-in-chief of American Demographics Magazine for a number of years before moving on to ePodunk.com. Magazine information now at www,adage.com.

Welfare Economics & Sustainable Development edited by Yew-Kwang Ng and Ian Wills, Monash University (Australia), Economics Department, can be found listed under Encyclopedia of Development and Economic Sciences at www.eolss.net/InformationBooklet.pdf (An Integrated Compendium of Twenty Encyclopedias).

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