Relaunching Regional Economic-Development Policy and Planning for Auckland: Remaking the State and Contingent Governance under Neoliberalism

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1093-1112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Wetzstein
2020 ◽  
pp. 096977642097062
Author(s):  
Benito Giordano

The UK has been a recipient of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy funding since its inception, and it has played a key role ever since in local and regional economic development across the UK. However, in the run up to the Brexit referendum in 2016, discussions about the significance of EU Cohesion Policy funding to the UK’s cities and regions, which have benefitted from this support for decades, was not a major topic of discussion. Paradoxically, the demise of EU Cohesion Policy in the UK, post-Brexit, comes precisely at a time when spatial inequalities are rising. Moreover, real questions remain about the UK government’s commitment to tackling regional economic development in the coming years. Having said that, as this Commentary discusses, several decades of EU Cohesion Policy implementation in the UK do provide a number of significant policy lessons, which should inform the contours of future UK regional economic development policy.


Author(s):  
Asfika Sultana ◽  
Md Harun Or Rashid ◽  
Shahara Akter Eva ◽  
Arifin Sultana

This study mainly investigates the problems of public management from the two interdisciplinary approaches of regional economic development policy and urban development policy. A qualitative desk review approach has been adopted to contribute the debate and reach the objectives of the study. This study reveals that there is an integral relationship among regional economic development policy, urban development policy and public policy. It also introduces the main essence of regional economic development policy, the analysis of the research difficulties and causes, expounds the relationship and enlightenment between regional economic development policy research perspectives, approach and research methods of public management. It also highlights the relationship and enlightenment between the way and research method and the theory and practice of public management. This paper also analyzes the main similarity and differences between regional economic development policy and urban development policy and forward recommendations based on the findings.


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