Enterprise zones: do they work?
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Ten years after the introduction of the business enterprise zone, 500 active enterprise zones exist, and more than 1500 areas have been designated as zones. However, conclusive evidence that the concept revitalizes economically depressed areas and lowers unemployment as promised does not exist. Business that operate within enterprise zones receive tax breaks that include exemption from the capital gains tax, investment tax credits, and credits for hiring unemployed workers. Statistics supplied by the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1987 indicate that enterprise zones attracted $8,8 billion in private capital, and created or saved approximately 180,000 jobs. Although states with active enterprise zones claim they have succeeded, opponents to the idea say the states use zones to lure businesses away from neighboring areas, or to bribe businesses thinking of leaving the state. Opponents also say tax breaks are at the bottom of the list of reasons an industry locates in a particular area, and that the breaks often cost taxpayers more in lost tax revenue than they gain from new industry.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1990
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Public/private deals: do they really work?
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Local governments have been entering into partnerships with private businesses to increase revenues. Reductions in federal aid and the unequal geographical distribution of the poor have made income generation the number one priority of cities and states. Local governments often provide financial support to private companies in the hope that business in their localities will be stimulated. Public/private partnerships can best be seen in the creation of festival marketplaces. In this kind of business venture, local governments usually make heavy investments because the development of festival marketplaces requires more financing than the typical shopping mall. One area that public administrators need to be concerned about is being able to correctly judge the soundness of their investments.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1992
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Complexity, science and the public: The geography of a new Interpretation
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The scientist has interpreted the challenge of measurability with an unexpected result that escapes the gravitational field of measurability problem, the meaning of reproducibility and the redrawn boundaries of scientific inquiry with implications for the social sciences. The resulting geography is a new relationship among its elements and new means of orientation, all the fibers of change are considered in the context of a fresh meaning of time and a topology dominated by network concepts.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2005
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