About The Project
The edited volume of Municipal Economic Development Tools is the result of collaboration of the Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP) and Extension Service (MSUE) of Michigan State University, the Local Economic Development: Ukraine (LED) Project of the United States Agency for International Development, the Kyiv Economic Institute (KEI) and the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). The project aims at dissemination of the best practice in urban economic development among local government officials, extension specialists, economic developers, and researchers nationally and internationally. To achieve this goal, the project collects, publishes and promotes a set of basic economic development tools used by practitioners and extension specialists around the globe. The volume provides a description of development tools including practical and user-friendly advice about how to address common critical issues of municipal economic development. Each tool is contributed by an independent author (or a group). Then they were carefully reviewed and edited by experts from GUSP, LED, KEI and KSE. However, the content and the opinions presented in each tool are those of the authors and may not reflect the views of editors, founders or sponsors of the project.
The first call for contributions to the volume was issued in November of 2006 and resulted in 11 tools which were published online at www.municipaltoolkit.org in English, Ukrainian, Russian and Spanish in March 2008. The project plans to re-issue the call on a regular base in order to extend the set of available best practice examples.
Editorial Board
Editor: Dr. Denys Nizalov, Assistant Professor, Kyiv School of Economics/ Kyiv Economic Institute, nizalov@kse.org.ua
Co-Editor: Dr. Laura Reese, Director, Global Urban Studies Program; Professor, Michigan State University,
Co-Editor: Howard Ockman, Chief of Party of the USAID Local Economic Development Project, hockman@led.net.ua
Editor of Ukrainian and Russian versions: Dr. Olena Nizalova, Assistant Professor, Kyiv School of Economics/ Kyiv Economic Institute, nizalova@kse.org.ua
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The editors would like to express deep gratitude to all those who have given us the possibility to complete this volume. We want to thank the contributing authors for sharing their expertise with the international audience. We would like furthermore to thank the staff of Kyiv Economic Institute and the LED project for their help in translating this volume and preparing the presentation of the Tool Kit project in Kyiv. In particular we would like to thank Olena Gnezdilova, KEI Junior Economist, and Ripsime Khrenova-Shymkina, LED Training Coordinator, for their hard work. We are deeply indebted to Dr. Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University, for his support on all stages of the project.
The editors would like to express deep gratitude to all those who have given us the possibility to complete this volume. We want to thank the contributing authors for sharing their expertise with the international audience. We would like furthermore to thank the staff of Kyiv Economic Institute and the LED project for their help in translating this volume and preparing the presentation of the Tool Kit project in Kyiv. In particular we would like to thank Olena Gnezdilova, KEI Junior Economist, and Ripsime Khrenova-Shymkina, LED Training Coordinator, for their hard work. We are deeply indebted to Dr. Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University, for his support on all stages of the project.
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The Project’s mission is to help establish essential institutions, practices, and strategic mindsets that will enable Ukrainian city governments to attract investment, promote business development and provide job creation over the short- and long term. The primary tool used by the Project is a four-month strategic planning process involving local businesses and local government officials, and further implementation of the agreed-upon strategy by a Municipal Office of Economic Development established for that purpose. The planning methodology involves formal data gathering and analysis by all members of the newly established Strategic Planning Committee consisting of community and business leaders.
For more information please visit www.led.net.ua
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The Kyiv Economic Institute (KEI)
The KEI is a research and outreach organization, founded in 2005 by the Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics (www.hhs.se/SITE) in close collaboration with the Kyiv School of Economics. KEI aims to make a unique contribution by producing homegrown, top quality research and policy analysis.
For more information please visit www.kei.org.ua.
The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)
The KSE is a Master level program in Economics, with a reputation for excellence, both in and internationally. The School offers a two-year, full time Master Program with focus on Financial Economics, Economic Policy, and Economics of Firms and Markets. All classes are taught in English by international and Ukrainian faculty with PhDs from the best Western universities and strong research background. The program curriculum is in line with the best economics and financial economics graduate programs in North America and Western Europe.
KSE was established in 1996 and until 2006 had been known as the Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) MA Program in Economics. Nowadays, it is ranked among the top schools in Central and Eastern Europe, producing a future generation of world-class economists.
For more information please visit www.kse.org.ua.
The Global Urban Studies Program (GUSP), Michigan State University
The Global Urban Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary doctoral-level study integrated with other departments’ programs. The Graduate Specialization in Global Urban Studies addresses political, spatial, cultural and economic processes and issues in urban areas across the and the world, as well as the global processes that impact and unite urban areas.
For more information visit www.gusp.msu.edu
Michigan State University Extension
Since its beginning in 1914, Michigan State University Extension (MSUE) has focused on bringing knowledge-based educational programs to the people of the state to improve their lives and communities. Today county-based staff members in concert with on-campus faculty members serve every county with programs focused on agriculture and natural resources; children, youth and families; and community and economic development.
Today’s problems are very complex. Solutions require the interdisciplinary expertise and the collaboration of many partners. Operating synergistically with the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and other Michigan State University units, MSU Extension extends the University’s knowledge resources to all
Michigan
citizens and assists them in meeting their learning needs through a variety of educational strategies, technologies? and collaborative arrangements.
For more information visit www.msue.msu.edu
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