Economic Development Primer

Most economic developers must be educators as well as deal makers, planners, and catalysts for change. Community education about economic development is abolutely essential. It is important in creating awareness of what economic development is about and why it is important to a community's vitality.

Here are two useful resources that can help you with your educational job. Here is the link to my slides from a Principles of Economic Development course I teach, and here is a link to a useful Economic Development Primer produced by the World Bank.