Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners / Edition 4

by Avrom Bendavid Val

Overview

This is the fourth edition of Avrom Bendavid-Val's classic book that has become a standard for practitioners and students of public administration, urban and regional planning, and regional economics. Last revised in 1983, the work now provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented study of the state of the art of regional and local economic development planning, with emphasis on specific project activity arrived at through an analysis of the regional economic context. The book is written in a straightforward style, free of technical terms and jargon, and is suitable for readers without an extensive background in economics, mathematics, or statistics. In addition, all analytical work is presented in a form that can be carried out without the use of vast databases or computers.

Bendavid-Val divides his work into five basic parts, each covering a different feature or method of analysis and planning. Part one introduces important aspects of the overall economic and development context within which the methods of regional analysis are used. Parts two, three, and four offer an introduction to common descriptive methods of analysis for use in regional planning, covering aggregate regional analysis, intraregional analysis, and project identification and evaluation. Finally, part five deals with approaches to regional development planning, providing help in selecting the methods that will be most useful in a given situation. A selected bibliography concludes the book. This work contains everything the practitioner or student needs in order to understand what regional and local economic development is all about, as well as to acquire the basic analytical skills for regional development planning, and to design and carry out a regional development planning process. Public and academic libraries will find this updated and expanded edition to be a significant addition to their collections, and for students and practitioners in regional planning and development, it will be an essential reference source.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275937515
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/14/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

AVROM BENDAVID-VAL is Research Associate at the Center for Development Policy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of a number of books, including three previous editions of this work.

Table of Contents

The Economic and Development Context
Regional Development in the National Context
Inside the Region
Project Interventions for Regional Development
Methods of Aggregate Regional Analysis
The Basic Statistical Compendium
Income Measures, Income and Product Accounts
Balance of Payments Statements, Linkages and Flows
Economy Composition Analysis
Economic Base Analysis
Input-Output Analysis
Aggregate Social Accounts: A Relational Review
Methods of Intraregional Analysis
Characteristics of Subareas and Urban Places
Intraregional Linkages and Flows
Intraregional Income and Employment Multiplication
Settlement System Analysis
Methods of Project Identification and Evaluation
Project Identification
Project Evaluation
Benefit-Cost Analysis
Approaches to Regional Development Planning
An Idealized Planning Model
Applied Regional Approaches
A General Framework for Regional Planning
Bibliography
Index