A Beckley Common Council workshop on Tuesday sparked a debate on the definition of economic development and how it relates to the more than 100-acre Pinecrest Business and Technology Park property in ...

It seems a simple task to determine the definition of economic development. But for decades, discussions about growing city and county economies have centered on job creation and what can be done to ...

FLORENCE — A work group formed as a result of a Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama study will begin working on broadening the definition of economic development.

Lawmakers discuss efforts to recalibrate the state’s economic-development strategy. In the 1980s and ’90s, Indiana viewed “economic development” as the enticement of high-profile, high-tech, high-wage ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...