March 11, 2009
As commercial vacancies increase, cities are feeling the pain of lower tax revenues. read more...
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March 09, 2009
The economic recession is hard to notice in Berlin. The German capital has struggled economically for years and continues to. read more...
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March 06, 2009
posted by John Buntin The National Association of Counties (NACo) begins its annual legislative conference tomorrow in Washington, DC. Earlier this afternoon, NACo President Don Stapley, a county supervisor from Maricopa County, Ariz., President-elect Valerie Brown, a former state legislator-turned-...
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March 03, 2009
cleantech, energy, environment Luke Timmerman wrote: The venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said three years ago that “greentech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.” Since then, voters in the U.S. have elected a President and ...
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March 02, 2009
William Easterly says he is not a market ideologue as he argues against a "knee-jerk rejection of markets": Why So Scared of “Free Markets�?, by William Easterly: The debate of the last few days on this blog reminded me again of how strong is the visceral negative reaction to an argument for “...
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February 26, 2009
Some organizations believe they hold the key to fighting poverty--economic development in the inner cities, which will in turn bring in private investment. But others maintain that both are hard to come by simultaneously. read more...
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February 23, 2009
Slumdog Entrepreneur by Sam Daley-Harris, Founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign When my wife and I slipped into our theater seats to watch Slumdog Millionaire, we braced ourselves for a journey into urban slums, a world inhabited by over one billion people globally. But unlike the movie-goers i...
Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo
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February 19, 2009
Some federal legislation is confusing and hard to evaluate. Sometimes it’s due to complexity - other times it’s because opponents create complexity to mislead the public. Congressman Peter Roskam recently decided to confuse what the recently passed stimulus package does - and then critic...
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February 18, 2009
After Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall, it quickly became clear to the Bloomberg administration that the spiraling economic crisis was going to hit New York especially hard. The financial sector had been the city’s economic engine, driving real wages and estate prices up citywide. So the Bloomb...
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After Lehman Brothers collapsed last fall, it quickly became clear to the Bloomberg administration that the spiraling economic crisis was going to hit New York especially hard. The financial sector had been the city’s economic engine, driving real wages and estate prices up citywide. So the Bloomb...
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