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Since the 1980s, local authorities and central government have come to recognise ethnic minority small business development in inner city areas as a valid policy issue. This can be seen as a response to under-representation by particular black groups in the small business sector and promotion of small business as a focus of government economic policy for inner cities. The Greater London Council (GLC), prior to its abolition in 1986, played a key role in pioneering local government initiatives targeted to the needs of black owned businesses and those aspiring to be self-employed. These are now being implemented by the Greater London Enterprise Board (GLEB). The paper analyses the development and implementation of these initiatives in the wider policy context of GLC's radical economic strategy.

The Greater London Council (GLC), prior to its abolition in 1986, played a key role in pioneering local government initiatives targeted to the needs of black owned businesses and those aspiring to be selfemployed. These are now being implemented by the Greater London Enterprise Board (GLEB). Analyses the development and implementation of these initiatives in the wider policy context of GLC's radical economic strategy. (Abstract amended)

The objective of this study is to put forth an exploratory growth model of urban primacy. Based on a historical Kenyan case study, the series of interrelated and recursive growth processes that lead to polarization in primate cities of urban based economic activities in colonial spatial systems are described

This book examines urban agriculture in East Africa and proves that it is a safe, clean, and secure method to feed the world's struggling urban residents. It also collapses the myth that urban agriculture is practiced only by the poor and unemployed. "Cities Feeding People" provides the hard facts needed to convince governments that urban agriculture should have a larger role in feeding the urban population.