The Review of Black Political Economy articles from September 1995

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from September 1995

Economic development strategies for the inner city: the need for governmental intervention.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... For nearly fifty years scholars and policy-makers have lamented the plight of the inner city and proposed an ever changing set of policies aimed at reinvigorating it. These programs, commencing with the federal Housing and Urban Development Act...

Entrepreneurship and the advantages of the inner city: how to augment the Porter thesis.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... Michael E. Porter has put the problem of "inner-city" economics on center stage in the public square. Although many researchers and practitioners have addressed this problem, there is nothing like an article in the Harvard Business Review by a...

Business strategy and access to capital in inner-city revitalization.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION This essay discusses critically Michael Porter's proposals for inner-city economic revitalization - to make the inner city more open to market forces and more attractive to large firms, while eliminating economic-development...

Building inner cities: basic principles.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... In 1994, Hartford, Connecticut, turned its public school system over to a private sector firm. Education Alternatives, Inc. promised to enhance student learning, improve test scores, introduce technological innovations, streamline school...

Taking back the inner city: a review of recent proposals.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION While it would appear that only a minority of white public figures today pay attention to urban issues, recently several prominent groups have come forward to recommend public policies and ways of understanding urban problems -...

Political economy of urban poverty in the 21st century: how progress and public policy generate rising poverty.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... Increasing the incidence of poverty is rarely the primary purpose of public policy decisions, but it is often a byproduct. When HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros calls upon local governments to improve their business climates by "lowering operating...

Promoting economic development in the inner city: the importance of human resources.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model Of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... In his essay entitled "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City," Michael Porter proposes a model for the revitalization of inner cities. The proposed model relies on business development as a strategy to promote revitalization and assigns a...

Revitalizing the inner city: a holistic approach.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... The economic and social distress of America's inner cities is one of the most challenging problems of our times. There are many diverse and often conflicting views on how to break the debilitating cycle of economic poverty, psychological despair,...

Reparations and the competitive advantage of inner cities.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... SUMMARY Michael Porter adds weight to disparate attempts to stimulate and accelerate investment, business development, and job creation in chronically distressed urban areas. But his discussion of the problems and his proposed alternative...

Potential welfare gains from improving economic conditions in the inner city.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION A large source of potential employees, customers and employers reside in the inner city. However, conditions such as high unemployment, low per capita income, and low educational attainment indicate the difficulty of making...

Is the inner city competitive?(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... Michael Porter's article in the Harvard Business Review (May-June 1995) on "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" in many ways is a valuable contribution to our thinking about economic redevelopment in metropolitan areas. Its appearance in...

Initiative for a competitive inner city.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... The mission of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City is to foster healthy economies in America's inner cities that create jobs and economic opportunity for local residents. BACKGROUND The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City is a...

Making comparative advantage work for economic opportunity.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... Michael Porter's "The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" is one of the most important articles in the fields of economic and community development authored in the last ten years. All development policymakers and professionals should look...

Economic development or social development? A strategy for rebuilding inner cities.
September 22, 1995... Every Monday morning John leaves the rooming house where he rents a room and walks four and a half miles to the newly constructed Baltimore Sun plant that was partially subsidized by Baltimore City. Each week he hopes that he will be selected to...

A dialogue on the Atlanta project with Jane Smith, Executive Director.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... BOSTON: Would you give us an overview of The Atlanta Project? SMITH: In 1991, President Jimmy Carter became energized about doing something in the Atlanta environment that might be used as a learning tool and as an example for the rest of the...

Location preferences of successful African American-owned businesses in Atlanta.(Special Issue: Responses to Michael Porter's Model of Inner-City Redevelopment.)
September 22, 1995... Revitalizing inner cities is one of the nation's most challenging problems. The failure to meet this challenge has led to an enormous waste in human and economic resources. The distress of the inner city is not fundamentally about dilapidated...