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Reforms could make cities work
Talk to anyone about cities and the conversation quickly moves to negatives — to issues like crime and violence, traffic congestion, schools that don’t work, poverty, decay, racial tensions and divisions, out-of-control taxing and spending and, too often, out-of-control police and self-serving politicians. But that’s not the way it has to be. Cities are also…
World Finds New Way To Do Business
The scramble for position and market share in the expanding global economy rewards new skills and requires unconventional strategies. One of the most important of these is countertrade. Countertrade is a response to two forces: hard currency shortages and a tendency for governments to use trade to help achieve broader economic development or industrial policy…
Three Responses to New Economy
Bozeman, Mont.— Sit, fight or run. These are your options if you live in a state racked by the changes in America’s New Economy. For example, demographic change is causing Montana to lose one of its two seats in Congress. And federal policy has taken its toll. Transportation deregulation has left many Montana communities stranded,…