24 May 2003 | The Globe and Mail pg. F.3| by John Allemang.

Tellingly, the former World Bank economist didn't just parade these hard facts as essential truths, but contrasted them with the soft-centred nostalgia felt by academics with a more sentimental education. "There's a tendency on the part of Western intellectuals to idealize rural life, and poor rural life, in developing countries."

March 27, 2012 | NYT | By RONDA KAYSEN.

Pfizer’s decision prompted a feverish community effort to convert the property to a mixture of affordable housing, retail and manufacturing. But those hopes were dashed when Pfizer abandoned plans to convert the factory to affordable housing.

In February 2011, it sold the eight-story plant and adjoining parking lot to Acumen, a firm that specializes in adapting industrial properties for new uses. Pfizer is still trying to sell several remaining parcels.

Pfizer provided Acumen with financing to purchase the factory and parking lot, a decision that Pfizer officials point to as an example of the company’s commitment to the neighborhood.

March 17, 2012 1:11 am
Lunch with the FT: Esther Duflo

By John Gapper

By: Rick C. Wade
Posted: October 10, 2011

January 28, 2012 | By KNews | Clinton Urling

JANUARY 12, 2012 | WSJ | By LAUREN RUDSER.

Pop-up stores aren't a new phenomenon—often they are seasonal, setting up for holidays like Halloween or Christmas. Restaurants also occasionally pop up for a night or two to test a new menu or location. Such stores have become more prevalent nationwide with the increasing number of storefronts left vacant amid a weak economy, says Jesse Tron, a spokesman with the International Council of Shopping Centers.

What makes popuphood different is the number of stores opening simultaneously, and the goal of going from pop-up to permanent.

Dec 3rd 2011 || The Economist

By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Published: June 6, 2011

By: Marjorie Valbrun | Posted: May 21, 2008.

Mobile phones are helping people climb out of poverty, spurring small-scale entrepreneurship, promoting development and even helping farmers and market women work more efficiently and earn more money.

The story of what is happening in Haiti is part of a larger trend taking place in developing countries around the globe, particularly in Asia and Africa. The world is witnessing a seismic social, cultural and technological shift that is changing how people work, live and thrive – all because of cell phones.

JULY 23, 2011 By JONATHAN COHEN AND JOHN GIARDINO

The Empire State Can Rise Again
Upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester were once powerhouses. They
can be again, if politicians encourage local entrepreneurship

Naomi Powell
March 18, 2011
At some point, the “business cluster” emerged as a kind of silver bullet
for economically-challenged municipalities.

Find a way to put companies together in a single geographic area and
they will become each other’s customers, suppliers and collaborators.
Innovation, prosperity and jobs will follow.

A new study from Europe’s Centre for Economic Policy Research throws a
wrench into at least one part of that theory.

The analysis of 1,604 companies in the five largest Norwegian cities
found that regional and national clusters are “irrelevant for
innovation.” On the contrary, international cooperation or “global
pipelines” were identified as the main drivers of innovation.

By MICHAEL POWELL
Published: March 4, 2011

FEBRUARY 26, 2011 | wsj | By GREG LINDSAY. From Dubai to
Chongqing to Honduras, the Silk Road of the future is taking shape in
urban developments based on airport hubs. Welcome to the world of the
'aerotropolis.' an amalgam of made-to-order office parks, convention
hotels, cargo complexes and even factories, which in some cases line the
runways. It is a pure node in a global network whose fast-moving
packets are people and goods instead of data. And it is the future of
the global city. ...The basic aim of an aerotropolis is to disrupt local
incumbents and monopolies using the long arm of air travel. It allows
Indian hospitals to entice American heart patients for top-notch surgery
at rock-bottom prices. It lets factories move out to the far reaches of
western China to manufacture the iPad for lower wages while absorbing
millions of urban migrants. Detroit's leaders are even building an
aerotropolis in a Hail Mary bid for Chinese investment.

FEBRUARY 10, 2011|WSJ | By WILL CONNORS.
Africa Rising
Catering to New Tastes as Incomes Climb
Zambian Beef Processor Expands to Nigeria With Aim of Spreading Out Across the Continent

December 13, 2010 | Financial Post | Rick Spence

AUGUST 25, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | By RUSSELL GARLAND

August 15, 2010 | Stabroek News | D. Jones

August 2, 2010 | Stabroek News | A. A. Fenty.

July 26, 2010 | New York Times | By TRYMAINE LEE

July/August 2010 | The Atlantic Magazine | By Sebastian
Mallaby. In the 1990s, Paul Romer revolutionized economics. In the
aughts, he became rich as a software entrepreneur. Now he’s trying to
help the poorest countries grow rich—by convincing them to establish
foreign-run “charter cities” within their borders. Romer’s idea is
unconventional, even neo-colonial—the best analogy is Britain’s historic
lease of Hong Kong. And against all odds, he just might make it happen.

April 30, 2010 | YES! Magazine | By Stacy Mitchell. "...While
signs abound that people are rediscovering the benefits of an economy
rooted in community and small-scale enterprise, all of this activity,
though widespread, is still quite modest. It exists largely on the
margins and is unlikely to coalesce into a wholesale reorganization of
our economy unless we change the rules. "

April 25, 2010 | Stabroek News | David Jessop

May 17, 2010 | The New Yorker, p. 79 | by Ian Parker

May 8, 2010 | New York Times | Simon Romero

April 25, 2010 | Stabroek News | A Donald Augustin. Obit for Uncle Clarence.

3 April 2010 | Wall Street Journal | By Raymond Fisman.
Raymond Fisman is professor of economics and director of the Social
Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. He is author, with
Edward Miguel, of "Economic Gangsters."

APRIL 6, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | by By KATHY CHEN.
Officials See a Boon for Local Economies in Growing Number of
Entrepreneurs Dipping a Toe in American Market.

Mar. 06, 2010 | Globe and Mail | Jeffrey Simpson. The U.S.
is burdening itself with debt, postponing days of fiscal reckoning. Huge
structural changes, meanwhile, are occurring in the world economy. The
challenge for Canadian business, Mr. Carney argued, is to move beyond
the cocoon of the North American economy.

He put the challenge squarely: “Canadian business will need to develop
new markets as the traditional advantage of relatively open access to
U.S. markets becomes less valuable. To seize new opportunities, our
productivity levels must improve."At issue is whether Canadian
businesses can think beyond the U.S. market. If not, Canada will be
missing most of the new economic action. It's a hard challenge for a
country with so many branch plants, so few head offices, so much
self-satisfaction, and a long tradition of looking only south.

March 23, 2010 | Stabroek News | By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA

Feb. 19, 2010 | The Globe & Mail | by David Carment and
Yiagadeesen Samy. If the Marshall Plan caused Europe to grow, it was
because Europe had a number of favourable pre-conditions that are
largely absent in Haiti: high levels of human capital, a long history of
democratic institutions and rule of law, private enterprise, and
trading history....To address problems of absorptive capacity, Canada
and its donor partners will need a strategy that clearly lays out the
sequencing of building political authority, legitimate governance and
sound economic capacity.

An effective strategic plan begins by specifying the end results that
are expected from those investments, the risks in achieving those
results, and indicators that track a reduction in those risks over time.
In short, a road map is only useful if you know your final destination.

January 14, 2010 TIME.com Posted by Justin Fox

January 25, 2010 | Stabroek News | by Michael Maxwell. "The
public sector of a poor nation where your next raise is determined by a
clueless government pandering to ethnic concerns is no place to be
hanging your hat for the future, despite your lionhearted service.

There must be a return of the innovative African Guyanese whose vision
of the future is bold enough to know that he has to recast himself into
finding the comfort and security of wealth in a nation where ethnic
economic marginalization rules. As one blogger aptly stated in response
to my January 8 letter, African Guyanese are always starting and
starting over in many of this nation’s economic endeavours. That is a
spirit-crushing struggle for any people. African Guyanese capitalism
does not necessarily have to be on a massive commercial scale, but it
should be sufficient to afford quality wealth and economic security. To
hell with political marginalization."

January 23, 2010 | New York Times | By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN.
What the country needs most now is not more govt. stimulus, but more
stimulation. We need to get millions of American kids...excited about
innovation and entrepreneurship again. We need to make 2010 what Obama
should have made 2009: the year of innovation, the year of making our
pie bigger, the year of “Start-Up America.” Obama should make the
centerpiece of his presidency mobilizing a million new start-up
companies that won’t just give us temporary highway jobs, but lasting
good jobs that keep America on the cutting edge. The best way to counter
the Tea Party movement, which is all about stopping things, is with an
Innovation Movement, which is all about starting things. Without
inventing more new products and services that make people more
productive, healthier or entertained — that we can sell around the world
— we’ll never be able to afford the health care our people need, let
alone pay off our debts."

January 8, 2010 | Stabroek News | Michael Maxwell

Apr 3, 2009 | The New York Jewish Week Vol. 221, Iss. 45; pg. 12, 2 pgs| Tamar Snyder

Feb 20, 2009 | The New York Jewish Week. Vol. 221, Iss. 39; pg. 12, 2 pgs | Tamar Snyder

September 28, 2009 | National Post | by Megan O'Toole.
According to a report by Craig Alexander of TD Economics, immigrants are
not being utilized to their full potential, costing Canada's economy
billions of dollars every year -- and poor language and literacy skills
are at the heart of the problem.

Aug 17, 2009 | Toronto Star. pg. A.11 | Kevin Stolarick. "We
share the concerns of our colleagues at the University of Toronto Cities
Centre whose recent report, The Three Cities within Toronto, showed
that the city's core is becoming gentrified, with visible minorities
moving to the fringes along major transportation arteries." "As we move
into the creative age, Toronto must continue to build on its strengths -
its multicultural and talented workforce - and leverage these to become
more innovative."

Example of specific, ethnic community-based economic
development. This speaks to the idea of the city of Toronto investing
in social capital.

June 20, 2009 | New York Times | By STEVE LOHR. The rising
worldwide interest in innovation policy represents the search to answer
an important question: What is the appropriate government role in
creating industries and jobs in today’s high-technology, global economy?

Aug 2007 | Economic Development Quarterly Vol. 21, Iss. 3; pg. 278 | by Robert J. Stokes

Feb 2002 |Economic Development Quarterly. Thousand Oaks: Vol. 16, Iss. 1; pg. 49, 11 pgs | by Timothy Bates.

Sept. 2007 | Municipal World | by Greg Baeker.

MAY 26, 2009 | Wall Street Journal | by SIMONA COVEL. Cities
Like Kalamazoo Dangle Incentives as Silicon Valley and Other Old Hot
Spots See Pullback in Venture Loans

May. 30, 2009 | The Globe and Mail | John Allemang. “He's
pretty passionate about Toronto, which is what we need,” says Kyle Rae,
the chair of the city's economic-development committee, who first spoke
with Mr. Bryant about the Invest Toronto position in February. “And he's
highly intelligent, a fast learner, good on his feet and reads the room
well.”

March-April 2009 | Harvard Magazine

December 15, 1997| Business Week pg. 152 | by Karen Pennar

April 15, 2009
Clean tech association creates innovative membership category

MARCH 11, 2009 | Wall Street Journal | by STEPHANIE SIMON and LESLIE EATON

January 7, 2009 | — The American, A Magazine of Ideas | By Scott Shane From the Magazine: Wednesday,

March 27, 2009| Business Week| By John Tozzi

Jack Schultz, founder and CEO of industrial developer Agracel of
Effingham, Ill., and author of Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success
in Small Towns. He also says states and cities are beginning to
recognize entrepreneurs as a "third leg" of economic development, as
important as retaining existing jobs and attracting large corporations.

11-28-07| strategy+business | by Karen Stephenson
“heterarchies”: high-trust connections among particular groups of three or more organizations.
Applicable to Toronto economic development idea to spur entrepreneurship?? for Rob Berry

April 11, 2009 | New York Times | By MATT RICHTEL

Cisco ad which I need for City of Toronto proposal.

That's the human network effect. Welcome to the human network. cisco.com/ca/smb

2,000 apples a day, and Toronto may be the Greatest and Greenest of the World’s Big Cities!
Submitted by Norm Roulet on March 3, 2009 - 5:46am.

February 17, 2009| Portfolio.com| by Evan Ratliff |

Portfolio.com investigates how President Obama's campaign promise of
prying open government information coffers will benefit business.

March 19, 2009| The Globe & Mail | SHIVAN MICOO. Lynn Clay, executive director of the Liberty Village BIA,

Jan 30, 2009 | US Fed News Service, Including US State News. Washington, D.C.: .

MARCH 17, 2009 | Wall Street Journal | by MATTHEW REES.

Book review of Dead Aid
By Dambisa Moyo
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 188 pages, $24)

Mike provided tremendous strategic consultation, analyses and targeted support to TRRA and Toronto Region.

Jun 22, 2005 | Financial Times pg. 12 | by PAUL TYRRELL.

Jun 22, 2005 | Financial Times pg. 12 | by PAUL TYRRELL.

Oct 19, 2006. Financial Times. London (UK):pg. 6 by RICHARD LAPPER.

Friday's February 27, 2009 Globe and Mail column by PRESTON MANNING

February 10, 2009 G&M article by Jennifer Lewington on the
negative role that the escalating welfare caseload is playing on
Toronto's budget.

October 29, 2007 Remarks by Judith Andrew, Vice President
Ontario, CFIB. The senior level governments now accept that their
purchasing/procurement decisions are important to economic development,
and that there is a need to make such opportunities accessible to
smaller firms.

The Diaspora of Ethnic Economies: Beyond the Pale?
Journal article by Lan Cao; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 44, 2003

The author explains why ethnic economies have not been comprehensively addressed in U.S. legal scholarship.

November 2006 Inc. Magazine by Andrew Wolk, co-founder of
InnerCity Entrepreneurs and founder and president of Root Cause, a
strategy consulting firm. The time has come to focus more resources on
building existing businesses. To accomplish this, we have to persuade
those who control the flow of precious economic development resources of
the value of existing small businesses.

February 4, 2009| G& M |by KAREN HOWLETT on a report,
commissioned by Premier Dalton McGuinty and written by urban thinker
Richard Florida and Roger Martin, the dean of the University of
Toronto's Rotman School of Management. "Ontario's future depends on
nurturing creativity and intelligence rather than protecting the past by
bailing out struggling manufacturers,"

Applied Research Bulletin - Volume 7, Number 1 (Winter-Spring
2001)

Social capital may have a payoff—lower transaction costs.

"Trust" was a focal point in many discussions of social capital. Much of
the theoretical reasoning supporting the idea that social capital may
have a payoff — in terms of lower transaction costs, for example — is
based on the fact that trustworthiness among members of a society
permits business and social dealings to respond efficiently to changing
circumstances. The level of trust in a community is perceived by some
experts as a product of the "norms and networks." As a result, estimates
of trust have often been used as measures of social capital.

Links are weak between economic growth and human and social capital in
OECD countries.

01.13.09 | Forbes Magazine | by Dane Stangler

Cities prosper through spontaneous enterprise, not top-down planning.

January 31, 2009 | G&M | by TENILLE BONOGUORE. Her series,
'The personal economy', is a series that looks at people in the Toronto
region coping with the economic downturn.

January 28, 2009 by blog post by adrielhampton. Premised on the
belief that one of the perfect uses of social media and Web 2.0-style
collaboration in local government is in economic development.

Jan. 26, 2009 WSJ article by Phred Dvorak on the use of social
network analysis to map communications amongst employees and boost
collaboration.

January 22, 2009 NYT article By DAVID BROOKS. Saved because
Brooks talks about America fundamentally rethinking its infrastructure
policies — and creating a new model adapted to new modes of
community-building.

Dec. 10, 2008 G&M information supplement by Canadian
Association of Retired People written by ( VP, Community Development)
Ross Mayot. The article looks at PowerUp Canada, a citizen's coalition
dedicated to stronger laws and government stimulation of the clean
economy.

12-01-2008 The Globe and Mail column by Judith Maxwell looking
at community initiatives, community development, getting people involved
in solving collective problems and creating community-based employment
as an alternative tool for economic development.