Getting it right : regional development in Canada /

McGee, R. Harley 1927-2004.

Getting it right : regional development in Canada / R. Harley McGee. - Montreal [Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1992. - 1 online resource (xxix, 329 pages). - Canadian public administration series, .

"The Institute of Public Administration of Canada."

Includes bibliographies and index.

""CONTENTS""; ""TABLES AND CHARTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Regional Development: The Canadian Context""; ""2 DREE: Dispelling the Myths""; ""3 DREE in Retrospect""; ""4 After DREE: DRIE and MSERD""; ""5 New Directions?""; ""6 Evaluation""; ""7 Prescriptions""; ""8 Conclusions""; ""APPENDIX 1 : COMPARISON OF GDA AND ERDA""; ""APPENDIX 2: REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T"" ""U""""v""; ""w""; ""y""

The federal government established the Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE) in 1969 and, four years later, released it from the traditional Ottawa-based departmental mould when it initiated a bold new decentralized approach to DREE's operations. DREE was dissolved in 1982 and replaced by a series of other experiments to improve regional economies. McGee argues that the 1982 move away from the DREE model of regional development was a mistake, and suggests that the predilection of governments for reorganising existing instruments of regional development policy and creating new ones has been detrimental to regional economies. Mindful of the new realities of the global economy within which Canada and its regions must compete, and of the promise/threat of rapidly changing technology, McGee identifies the need for a new order of priorities with which governments can meet these challenges and opportunities.



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Canada. Department of Regional Economic Expansion.
Canada. Ministère de l'expansion économique régionale.


Regional planning--Canada.
Economic assistance, Domestic--Canada.


Electronic Books.

HT395 / .G488 1992