Providing incentives to companies to create jobs has become a false panacea in the economic development world, and proponents often fail to acknowledge the strategy’s downsides. U.S. President Donald ...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, Europe experienced explosive economic growth. GDP per capita in the Netherlands – one of the richest parts of Europe at the time – was 42 percent higher than ...

When Susan Bonnett Bourgeois was named secretary of Louisiana Economic Development last week, she said the agency could be restructured under her watch. Adam Knapp, an economic development leader who ...

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PITTSBORO – Wolfspeed’s announcement on Friday that the Durham company would build a $5 million semiconductor plant in Chatham County and create more than 1,800 jobs took on an almost victorious ...

While many countries across the globe have experienced strong economic growth and improvements in human development outcomes over the last quarter of a century, natural resources continue to be ...

Last week I had the privilege of presenting some of RIoT’s work to an audience at the Milken Institute in Washington, D.C. Other speakers included Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and Phillip Swagel, the ...

The Louisiana Department of Economic Development is getting a makeover after Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday signed into law a measure that makes major changes to the state’s economic development arm. The ...