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Regional Economic Competitiveness, Part 3: Business Location Factors and an Assessment of Arizona's Competitiveness

On the most reliable measures of business climate, Arizona ranks in the middle of the states. The most important business location factors that can be influenced by public policy are labor force quality and availability, and physical infrastructure quality and…

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Regional Economic Competitiveness, Part 2: Economic Clusters in Arizona

Arizona’s subpar performance on measures of productivity and prosperity can largely be traced to three factors:

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Regional Economic Competitiveness, Part 1: Productivity and Prosperity in Arizona

Worldwide, the goal of economic development is to improve prosperity, not simply to grow in economic size. Aggregate growth rates, such as of population and employment, have little (if any) relationship to gains in prosperity.

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Immigration and Labor Market Imbalances: Implications for Policy Reform

The labor market in the United States today is extremely tight. The latest data suggest that there are approximately 4 million more job openings than the number of unemployed workers actively seeking employment — this figure had been as…

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Overview of Economic Competitiveness: Business and Individual Location Factors, With a Focus on Arizona

Introduces the concept of economic competitiveness, discusses location factors important to businesses, and evaluates competitiveness in Arizona. The assessment of Arizona’s business competitiveness is mixed, consistent with the middle-of-the-states rank of the most-reliable business climate…

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An Assessment of Arizona's Economic Competitiveness

Projects Arizona’s economic competitiveness following legislative actions in 2011 and 2012. The recent packages of business tax reductions and enhanced incentives taken individually will boost competitiveness; however, this will be offset by an inability to provide the public infrastructure and…

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Roadmap to Arizona's Economic Recovery: A Package to Create Jobs, Improve the State's Economic Competitiveness, and Balance the Budget

Presents a plan to balance the state government's budget in the near term and longer term, to create jobs in the near term, and to improve the state's economic competitiveness in the longer term. Arizonans face the twin problems of recovering from a deep and long economic recession and dealing…

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The Productivity and Prosperity Project: An analysis of Economic Competitiveness

As the transition from the industrial age to the information age/knowledge economy continues, economic competitiveness has taken on added importance and new meanings. The concepts of competitiveness, productivity, and prosperity can be applied to individuals, companies, regions (such as…

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Lessons From the Irish Miracle

Reviews Ireland’s dramatic improvement in economic growth and prosperity, providing comparisons to Arizona.

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