Lesson (un)learning in spatially targeted fiscal incentive policy: Enterprise Zones (England) and Empowerment Zones (United States)

Land Use Policy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-89

  Squires, Graham ^a   Hall, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empowerment Zones; Enterprise Zones; Fiscal incentives; Lesson learning; Regeneration; Renewal; Urban policy

Indexed keywords

DEREGULATION; EMPOWERMENT; FISCAL POLICY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLICY; URBAN RENEWAL;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872456897     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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