摘要：In discussing the adaptation of local economic development policies to changing economic trends and different local circumstances, this article considers what impacts the major economic trends of the last decade have had on the economic development initiatives of four middlesized Ontario municipalities. These trends include the 1981-1983 recession, the recovery that followed, and the restructuring that accompanied this economic cycle. The focus on local economic development efforts raises a number of questions about the nature of the processes leading to the formulation of local economic development strategies, the interest groups that most influence this formulation, and the institutional arrangements put in place to deal with local economic development.
