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The Economic Development Radio has been created as a platform to bring you interviews and discussions via podcasts and articles with:Economic Development professionals, talking about issues facing the industry and their provinces, cities and towns. Business owners, managers and other stakeholders including business chambers throughout South Africa.

The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development.

A Fast Food Nation for the airline industry, Attention All Passengers is a shocking and important exposé revealing the real state of the “friendly skies” in which we fly. Award-winning Consumer Reports travel journalist William McGee, a former editor of the Consumer Reports Travel Letter...

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries—the business of poverty. Broke, USA is a Fast Food Nation for the “poverty industry” that will also appeal to readers...

Using dozens of vivid examples to show how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, kills entrepreneurship, and increases economic inequality, two free-market thinkers diagnose the sickness caused by competition overdose and provide remedies...

A historically conscious manifesto calling for worker organizing in tech, led by Black and Latinx technologists What We Build with Power is an urgent call for organizing shared strategies in order to disrupt the tech industry and move toward a more economically inclusive and equitable workforce...

#HintonFirst is back, bringing to Hinton it's first official podcast from the Town of Hinton Economic Development and Strategic Services departments. Aiming for a once a month frequency, Hinton Success Stories will bring residents a unique insight into what makes a business in our community successful, and information about the Town of Hinton's support available to both residents and businesses.