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Title: | A remarkable resilience : political and bureaucratic impediments to economic development - a case study of Newfoundland and Labrador |
Other Titles: | Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands |
Authors: | House, John Douglas |
Keywords: | Newfoundland and Labrador -- Economic policy Newfoundland and Labrador -- Politics and government -- Case studies Public administration -- Newfoundland and Labrador Small business -- Newfoundland and Labrador States, Small -- Economic policy |
Issue Date: | 1998 |
Publisher: | Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island |
Citation: | House, J. D. (1998). A remarkable resilience: political and bureaucratic impediments to economic development - a case study of Newfoundland and Labrador. In G. Baldacchino, & R. Greenwood (Eds.), Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands (pp. 154-174), [An Island Living Series; V. 2]. Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island. |
Abstract: | The machinery of the state in its various forms has a habit of looming larger than life in most small island territories. The accident of geography implies a natural disposition for the insular territory to require some degree of administrative autonomy, necessitating the rudiments of a mini-public service; the more physically and logistically distant and inaccessible the island unit, the more likely it is to warrant a broad and specialized public sector. Such a sector becomes even more important and inevitable in cases where the island units served as colonies of other faraway powers and where local economic conditions - such as the poverty of natural resources - were not enough to permit a decent quality of life. The presence of an administrative sub-sector in the local economy, with its associated conditions of employment, often serves as a fateful attraction to islanders, enticing them with offers of job security, occupational mobility, and an escape from the harrowing ups and downs of a typically fragile and fickle economy which may otherwise oblige them to consider emigration. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/39316 |
ISBN: | 0919013236 |
Appears in Collections: | Competing strategies of socio-economic development for small islands |
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