A way forward : building a globally competitive South / / Global Reasearch Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Daniel P. Gitterman and Peter A. Coclanis, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827003003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-4696-0242-3; 0-8078-7289-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GittermanDaniel; CoclanisPeter A. <1952->
• Disciplina: 303.482; 330.975
• Soggetti: Economic development - North Carolina; Développement économique - Caroline du Nord; Economic development; Economic history; Economic policy; Southern States Economic conditions 1945-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: The South and 20th-century economic history -- 25 years later: revisiting Halfway home and Shadows in the sunbelt 1986-2011 -- Providing a nationally competitive education for all students -- Preparing a flexible, globally competitive workforce -- Public universities in a new economic era -- Increasing the economic development role of higher education -- Increasing the South's capacity to innovate and implement new economic development strategies -- Urban, rural and green -- Work, the safety net, and faith -- A changing Southern demography -- Southern politics and policy: then, now, and tomorrow -- Visions for the future of the South.
• Sommario/riassunto: Immense changes have come about in both North Carolina and the South more broadly in the last half century. Both the state and the region as a whole experienced rapid economic growth in the second ; half of the twentieth century, and living standards for the vast majority of the population in the South improved dramatically. By the mid-1980s, sufficient time had elapsed so that the South's postwar economic record could be placed in a broader and more balanced historical context, a task that seemed particularly important because signs of economic distress had begun to surface in both the state an