Doing Community Economic Development

John Loxley was a professor of economics at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as an economic advisor to the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Mozambique and Manitoba, and the incoming government of Nelson Mandela in South Africa, as well as a number of international institutions.KATHLEEN SEXSMITH is studying international development at the University of Oxford.Jim Silver is a professor emeritus at the University of Winnipeg and a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba. He has published extensively on poverty and poverty-related issues — for example, social housing, street gangs, community development, and adult basic education.

• : Introduction (Silver & Loxley): The State of CED in Winnipeg (Loxley): The Impact of Hydroelectric Development on Grand Rapids, Manitoba (Kulchyski & Neckoway): Government Policy towards CED in Manitoba in the 1960s and 1970s (Fernandez): Social Housing and CED Initiatives in Inner-City Winnipeg (Skelton, Selig & Deane): Urban Aboriginal Community Development (Silver, Ghorayshi, Hay & Klyne): Improving the Lives and Livelihoods of Women through Socially Transformative Practice (Amyot): CED to Reduce Young Women’s Poverty and Poverty-Related Conditions (McCracken): Moving Low-Income, Inner-city People into Good Jobs (Loewen & Silver): Can Call Centres Contribute to Manitoba’s CED? (Guard): Aboriginal Students and the Digital Divide (Deane & Sullivan): Aboriginal Labour and the Garment Industry in Winnipeg (Weist & Willmott): Aboriginal Employment in the Banking Sector in Manitoba (Sexsmith & Pettman): Manitoba Alternative Food Production and Farm Marketing Models (Doucette & Koroluk): Agricultural Land Trusts (Hamilton): Economics for CED Practitioners (Loxley & Lamb): Local Participation and Democratic State Restructuring (Sheldrick): Reflections on Accomplishments and Challenges (Loxley & Silver)