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Brad
Edmondson was editor-in-chief of American
Demographics Magazine for a number of years before moving on to ePodunk.com 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
files 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. For your information, The
Network lists places around the word
that want economic development (more
information about
free location listings). City-regions with
efforts underway to do something about their ghettos are invited
to tell us
who to contact. Email
us the name of the city along
with comments and contact data. We will publish the city's identify
and a link to its economic development website for
free.
If you are an appropriate contact for a program
that offers access to one or more economic development programs that
address the needs of the poor, you are invited to write a resource
article or paper which we will publish without obligation or cost
to you (disclaimer).
Send us your contact data or the URL address string for where it is
available online and we will publish it for free as well as list you
in the Global Registry of Contacts. 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. 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 resources 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 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. community profiles: EPodunk.com has them for places
throughout the Us RMA / risk management: The initials stand for Risk Management Association, an organization with a special interest managing the impact of credit risk. Unrelated is the interest The Network has in entrepreneurship and enterprise development both of which involve taking risks in business, for example see the answer to the question of what an enterprise developer does. risks and benefits: This resource item points to a source of various email newsletters available from one of business publications listed elsewhere in this website. One of newsletters is about risks and benefits. Use the links in the paragraph above for more information about taking risks as a business decision maker. Risk is defined in the .network glossary with additional links. 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. Take The Misery Out of Moving: As a handbook of the US Small Business Administration, the title is
indicated to be available online through www.sba.gov/gopher/Business-Development/Success-Series/Vol7/moving.txt
but it didn't show up in a search of the SBA website. Small businesses
considering relocation have access to some of the guide's resources
from websites such as that of USA Express Moving (Moving
Advice Done Right) and that of Bankrate, Inc (Relocation
Check List). More about relocaton work as it relates to enterprise and economic development.
Copy and paste the following italicized keyword
combinations, keeping quotation marks intact. Substitute the idenity
of a place of interest where you find the word location Relocation projects that create jobs in one location while bringing about the loss of jobs in in another is the least desirable form of economic development. The in-fighting between locations that share, for example, a national economytouted as competitiveness and fueled by, so called, relocation incentives that make it easy for many companies to decide to make a move. It seems that the politically correct flag to wave while carrying on with the deception is that business leaders who could care less about their employees are shipping jobs overseas. Jobs are not shipped overseas, they are driven for the most part by a need to be competitive. The positive approach is to get back to economic development basics at home. The top priority for the best economic development practitioners has always been to focus on business retention and maintaining an environment of quality labor ethics and workforce productiveness in the places they represent. From the perspective of the enterprise being offered incentives for staying put or relocating, in the best of worlds, the smart focus is on customer speak in combination with consideration for community and excellence. |
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