by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 12, 2020 | Sustainability
Why do we use incentives? We use them to achieve our economic development goals. Increasing numbers of countries and communities have ambitious plans to reach specific sustainable development goals (SDGs). Tax incentives can be harnessed to support...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Aug 14, 2018 | Sustainable development
Business attraction efforts, investment promotion policies and incentive programs often are or can be designed to support sustainable development goals. Smart Incentives founder Ellen Harpel and Indiana University assistant professor Sarah Bauerle Danzman recently...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jul 16, 2018 | Sustainable development
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) totaled $1.43 trillion in 2017, a 23% decline from the previous year. Announced greenfield investments fell 14%. Meanwhile, over 100 economies around the world have adopted industrial development strategies, 90% of which include...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sustainable economic development is reportedly important to a majority of economic development leaders, yet a triple bottom line approach is not a common practice. Why? The authors of a recent article in Economic Development Quarterly, “The Triple Bottom Line and...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Economic development succeeds at the interface of people, place and prosperity. As Janet Hammer explains in her recent article in IEDC’s Economic Development Journal, the triple bottom line (TBL) concept recognizes the interconnections between economic, environmental...
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