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Across the country, international companies are creating job opportunities for U.S. workers and building stronger connections to the communities in...

OFII releases annual report on FDIUS: The report is a must-read to understand the FDI landscape and notable trends. A few highlights...

Opportunity zones: vital community development tool or tax windfall for the rich? A little-noticed provision in Trump’s tax law...

Given the challenges faced by many rural regions, what are prerequisites for effective policy and practice in a rural context? Please click here...

Recognizing infrastructure’s role as a local economic anchor In the race to grow their economies and create new jobs, localities frequently...

How Culture Shapes Economic Development A new study, drawing on 1.5 million images of cultural spaces in London and New York, finds that cultural...

Beyond Bells & Whistles What’s Smartest? Systems That Help Humans. Like the traffic jams they seek to eliminate, the list of regions...

“In the absence of this commence-construction guidance, tax equity partners were growing cautious about project risk.” The Internal...

Confirmed, Again: Cost of Community Development Tax Incentives is Comparatively Small Late last month the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)...

The United States has, for an incredible sixth year in a row, topped A.T. Kearney’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index, an...

It’s a scenario that plays out over and over in cities across the country: A small business in a hip neighborhood closes, the storefront is...

Qualified Opportunity Zones were included as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which became law in December 2017. The zones were originally...