Back to Search
Start Over
Benefiting from the regional problem: The politics of 60 years of regional development.
- Source :
-
New Zealand Geographer . Dec2019, Vol. 75 Issue 3, p130-139. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
-
Abstract
- The New Zealand government approach to regional development and the economy more broadly has oscillated from the 1970s economic growth and investment focus to 1980s neoliberal neglect, followed by the more recent rediscovery of the regions' importance in national economies, all with tenuous outcomes. This paper explores the changing scope of regional development initiatives by successive New Zealand governments over the last 60 years to show a pattern of opportunism and neglect that suggests regional development is more aligned to electoral priorities than regional success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RURAL development
*ECONOMIC development
*PRACTICAL politics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00288144
- Volume :
- 75
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Zealand Geographer
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 140319765
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12237