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Local Development Initiatives And Unemployment In New Zealand

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  • Gary Scott
  • Eric Pawson

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In New Zealand, the national and local incidence of unemployment rose sharply with the drive to adopt neo‐liberal modes of regulation from the mid 1980s. This paper focuses on the local impacts of nationally formulated measures to combat unemployment, and in particular on the West Coast of the South Island. This is a region long regarded as problematic in terms of the provision of work given its history as a resource frontier. The measures can be divided into those that fall on a ‘business development’ path and those that come under the umbrella of ‘community development’. Although there is some overlap between both paths, the schemes promoted under each are distinctive and open to assessment. Such assessment shows the very limited contribution made by measures under either path to their targeted objective of reducing unemployment.

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  • Gary Scott & Eric Pawson, 1999. "Local Development Initiatives And Unemployment In New Zealand," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 90(2), pages 184-195, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:tvecsg:v:90:y:1999:i:2:p:184-195
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9663.00060
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    1. Etienne Nel & Teresa Stevenson, 2014. "The catalysts of small town economic development in a free market economy: A case study of New Zealand," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 29(4-5), pages 486-502, June.
    2. Etienne Nel, 2015. "Evolving regional and local economic development in New Zealand," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 30(1), pages 67-77, February.
    3. Morgan Ndlovu & Eric Nyembezi Makoni, 2014. "The globality of the local? A decolonial perspective on local economic development in South Africa," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 29(4-5), pages 503-518, June.
    4. Etienne Nel & Christian M Rogerson, 2016. "The contested trajectory of applied local economic development in South Africa," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 31(1-2), pages 109-123, February.

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