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The Forbes-Milken Institute project ranked the top 200 large metro areas based on a weighted scoring of the eight data categories. San Jose, Austin, and San Francisco received top honors.

The report uses 70 measures to provide a state-by-state assessment of economic development policy in three main areas — Performance, Business Vitality and Development Capacity. Top performers in this years report, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Washington and Minnesota, all earned straight As.

Indicators show that progress is being made in some areas: transit ridership, reading scores, philanthropic giving, health. Yet systemic problems have worsened: jobs growing faster than housing, rising housing costs, freeway congestion, widening income and educational divides.

A joint project of the Potomac Conference and a research team led by the Brookings Greater Washington Research Program, the 2001 Index builds on the work of the 2000 Index and is organized around five priorities — innovation, inclusion, education, quality of life, and regional thinking. Several new indicators, some of which reflect the events of September 11, are added to this years edition.

This paper uses consumption data to estimate the trend growth rate for the “new economy. The analysis starts with the assumption that a trend break in GDP should be accompanied by a trend break in consumption.

The first impact report from OCAST reviews the accomplishments over the past fiscal year and highlights success stories from concept to commercialization.

The authors will look closely at the Fund’s network development, and the way the Fund has addressed commercial and social bottom-lines; developed large-scale sectoral investment strategies; and linked investment approaches to public policy development. They also discuss lessons learned from establishing and implementing the Fund, hoping these will be useful to others.

The authors study a cross-section of 54 European regions in the period 1950-1998. The central question is whether social capital, in the form of generalized trust and associational activity, is related to regional differences in economic growth. Their analysis suggests that it is not only the mere existence of network relationships that stimulates regional economic growth, but also the level of actual involvement in these relationships.

Over the past two decades, the United States has undergone a significant economic transition. These changes have key implications for economic development, strategy, policy and practice. This article explores the impact these changes have on regional economic development, the capacity that regions need to compete in this emerging economic context, and some implication of this changing capacity for the nature of regional strategic planning.

As a follow up to the Louisiana: Vision 2020 in 2000 is the second annual action plan, which includes the first Status Reports concerning Council recommendations that were made in Action Plan 2000. The reports outlines the progress made and impediments the agency experienced in implementing the
Councils recommendation and associated strategies.