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

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, N.C., : University of North Carolina Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.482; 330.975
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - North Carolina; Développement économique - Caroline du Nord; Economic development; Economic history; Economic policy
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Economic conditions 1945-
• Altri autori: GittermanDaniel CoclanisPeter A. <1952->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A way forward
• ISBN: 1-4696-0242-3; 0-8078-7289-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827003003321
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