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Initial Impacts of Community Economic Development Initiatives in the Yorkshire and Humber Structural Funds Programme

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  • H. W. Armstrong
  • B. Kehrer
  • P. Wells

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This paper presents the evidence of the initial beneficial effects of Community Economic Development (CED) initiatives in Yorkshire and the Humber. The evidence is drawn from survey work undertaken as part of the formal evaluation of the region's 1994-99 Structural Funds Objective 2 programme. Previous research on CED has tended to focus on longer-term benefits. This paper, however, concentrates on the neglected issue of the immediate economic impacts of CED. These will eventually be superseded by capacity building and community linking effects. In the meanwhile, however, given the very recent (late 1994) insertion of CED into Structural Funds programmes in the UK, they represent the principal existing quantifiable impacts. The paper shows that the preliminary impacts are not only important in their own right, but also have implications for the effective longer-term targeting of CED on its designated communities. Cet article cherche a presenter des preuves des premiers impacts favorables des actions prioritaires en faveur du developpement economique d'initiative locale dans le Yorkshire et le Humberside. Les preuves sont puisees dans une enquete effectuee comme partie integrante de l'evaluation officielle du programme de la region lancesous l'egide de l'Objectif 2 du Fonds Structurel pour la periode de 1994 a 1999. Desrecherches anterieures sur le developpement economique d'initiative locale ont eu tendance a focaliser sur les avantages a plus long terme. Cet article porte plutot sur la question souvent negligee des impacts economiques immediats du developpement economique d'initiative locale. A terme, ces impacts feront place a des effets relatifs a la capacite a construire et aux liens communautaires. Entretemps, etant donne l'integration tres recente au Royaume-Uni (fin 1994) du developpement economique d'initiative locale dans les programmes qui remplissent les conditions requises pour beneficier du Fonds Structurel, ils representent les principaux impacts disponibles a evaluer avec precision. L'article montre que les premiers impacts sont non seulement importants en soi, mais aussi risquent d'avoir des consequences sur le ciblage efficace a plus long terme du developpement economique d'initiative locale pour ce qui est des communautes classees. Dieser Aufsatz stellt Beweise der anfanglich vorteilhaften Auswirkungen gemeinschaftlicher Wirtschaftsentwicklungsinitiativen (Community economic development - CED) in Yorkshire und der Humberregion vor. Die Beweise gehen auf Gutachterarbeiten zuruck, die als Teil der formalen Bewertung des Strukturfondsprogramms, Objekiv 2, der Region fur den Zeitraum 1975-1999 durchgefuhrt wurden. Fruhere Forschungsarbeiten uber CED beschaftigten sich meist hauptsachlich mit langerfristigen Unterstutzungszahlungen. Dieser Aufsatz wendet sich jedoch vorallem der vernachlassigten Frage der unmittelbaren wirtschaflichen Auswirkungen der CED zu. Im Laufe der Zeit werden sie von Kapazitatsaufbau und gemeinschaftsverbindende Wirkungen abgelost werden. Angesichts der erst kurzlich (Ende 1994) erfolgten Einbeziehung der CED in Strukturfondsprogramme des UK stellen sie vorlaufig aber die wichtigsten bestehenden quantifizierbaren Auswirkungen dar. Der Aufsatz zeigt, dass vorlaufige Auswirkungen nicht nur an sich von Bedeutung sind, sondern auch Implikationen fur wirksame, langerfristige Zielsetzung der CED fur die ihnen bestimmten Gemeinschaften haben.

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  • H. W. Armstrong & B. Kehrer & P. Wells, 2001. "Initial Impacts of Community Economic Development Initiatives in the Yorkshire and Humber Structural Funds Programme," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(8), pages 673-688.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:35:y:2001:i:8:p:673-688
    DOI: 10.1080/00343400120084
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