Financing Economic Development

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION An Overview of Economic Development Finance - Edward W Hill and Nell Ann Shelley Economic Development Financing Policy - Michael J Wolkoff A State and Local Perspective Tax Incentives, Public Loans and Subsidies - Margaret E Dewar What Difference do they Make in Nonmetropolitan Economic Development? PART TWO: THE PUBLIC SECTOR What Public Finance do State Constitutions Allow? - Ferdinand P Schoettle Industrial Development Bonds - Matthew R Marlin and William P Buzzi What Remains? Tax Increment Financing - James R Paetsch and Roger K Dahlstrom What it is and How it Works PART THREE: ALTERNATIVE USES OF PUBLIC FUNDS Connecticut's New Product Development Corporation - Peter S Fisher Enterprise Zones - Michael Allan Wolf A Decade of Diversity Research Parks as Public Investments - Michael I Lugar and Harvey A Goldstein A Critical Assessment Community Development Corporations as a Tool for Economic Development Finance - Wim Wiewel and Jeff Weintraub Revolving Funds for Economic Development - J Christopher Walker State Initiatives to Modernize US Small and Midsized Manufacturers - Philip Shapira Increasing Exports Through World Trade Centers - Sammis B White Financing Exports - Mary Lou Eagan and Marc Bendrick Jr What is the State Role? PART FOUR: PRIVATE FINANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT The Use of Bank Financing for Economic Development - John M Kolesar Venture Capital - Sheldon B Lubar Financing Entrepreneurs - Robert J Gaston The Anatomy of a Hidden Market PART FIVE: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER Putting it all Together - Terry F Buss, Arnold Clebone, Pamela Stanley and Peter Mitchell Financing Sovereign Circuits