"Size matters for local government, and more combined authorities would help create regional economic powerhouses to invest in research and development, support exporters and expand apprenticeships".
Investors interested in community economic development support financial institutions that lend to individuals who would not otherwise have the means to buy a home or start a business.
While companies in our sample with high levels of outside director stock compensation in a given year exhibited higher financial performance in later years, they also showed lower levels of responsibility to communities as measured by their charitable giving, relations with indigenous peoples, community employment and economic development, and support for basic public services.
In a position paper prepared ahead of Bonn, activists with the Afghan Women's Network point out that while the focus of international aid has "shifted drastically" from socio-economic and development projects to those that support transition and peace processes, concern for women's empowerment and gender equality has been largely left behind.
The political scientist Ronald Inglehart, at the University of Michigan, has demonstrated a link between economic development and support for diversity, such as approval of gay rights.
The round was led by six angel investors and "incentivized by" Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, a private/public partnership created by the state of Kansas to promote technology-based economic development and support local entrepreneurship.
In July, Kickanotch Mobile, a mobile marketing services startup based in the outskirts of Kansas City, raised $500K from a bunch of angel investors and was "incentivized by" the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, a private/public partnership created by the state of Kansas to promote technology-based economic development and support local entrepreneurship.
I will promote economic development and support energy exploration practices that do not endanger our environment.
Finally we have to consider extending at European level the bilateral agreements Italy has drawn up with countries such as Tunisia and Egypt to implement effective return policies for economic migrants, offering those countries economic support and development aid.
EI is critical for socio-economic development, supporting a suite of development imperatives at local, national and international scales.
