Search Results - subject:"Local Development"

Do Barangays Really Matter in Local Services Delivery? Some Issues and Policy Options

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Layug, Allan S.; Pantig, Ida Marie T. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2011

This paper is borne out of the need to address the scarcity of evidence-based studies on barangay financing. It analyzes and evaluates key issues on financing of devolved functions at the barangay level, with particular focus on fund utilization and program allocation, and proposes some policy...

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Absorption of European Funds Priority Objective for Local Communities Development (English version)

BRAGARU, Constantin - In: Revista de cercetare si interventie sociala 35 (2011) December, pp. 194-201

This paper analyzes the absorption capacity of structural funds in Romania in the programming period 2007-2013 and its impact on the development of local communities from the administrative point of view. The paper also focuses on the need to invest in institutional capacity and efficiency of...

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Neither easy nor impossible: Local development economics and policy

Seravalli, Gilberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This assai leads the reader on an analytical path to development, with institutions as its central focus. While its main emphasis is on the problematic nature of development in lagging or backward regions, contributions from the literature on developing countries have also been taken into...

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Extractive Industries and Local Development in the Peruvian Highlands: Socio-Economic Impacts of the Mid-1990s Mining Boom

Ticci, Elisa - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2011

Since the late Nineties, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing a protracted period of rapid growth. This paper investigates local impacts of the mining boom on migration, on access to basic services, on labour market and on occupational distribution across sectors. By applying...

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FOR THE SAKE OF DEVELOPMENT? MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA AND TURIN (1945-1975)

ADORNI, Daniela; MAGAGNOLI, Stefano - In: The Annals of the "Stefan cel Mare" University of … 11 (2011) 1(13), pp. 197-208

This paper (1) examines two areas of Italy, with very different political subcultures and production systems, with the aim of making a comparative analysis of the role of local government policies in stimulating growth processes over the thirty-year post war period. Historians now agree that the...

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EVALUATING THE EFFICIENCY OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

Sidonia, Sautiut Lavinia; Pavel, Sarac Ionut - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 131-136

economic development and its policies, we try to underline the importance of evaluating and prioritizing the local development … policies and also to propose an efficiency-based model that we later use in building and evaluating local development policies …

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Strategic Responses on Population Ageing in Regional Policy

Klimczuk, Andrzej - In: Theory of Management, 4. The Selected Problems for the …, (pp. 261-265). 2011

Population ageing is one of the key processes affecting the development of European Union countries. The aim of this paper is an indication of the possibility of collective action against this challenge at the regional level. Article describe assumptions and recommendations for strategic...

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Local Universities as Engines for Innovation and Regional Development in Southern Economies with Reference to MOROCCO

Driouchi, Ahmed; Zouag, Nada - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to show that universities can be engines for local development in Southern … of tacit knowledge on local development. Using data on developed, developing and emerging countries, regression analysis … potential and positive effects of regional universities on local development. The transmission channel includes encouragement of …

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Local economic development and migrant remittances in rural Zimbabwe: building on sand or solid ground?

Ncube, G.; Gomez, G.M. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 2011

The paper explores the impact of migrant remittances on local economic development in a locality where more than half of the households have been recipients for at least five years. The study has taken place in rural Zimbabwe and uses an ethnographic method devised for this research. The method...

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Synergy Effects in the Aspect of Local Development of Communities

Otola, Iwona - 2011

The paper presents problem of synergy effects, which are caused by European Union funds, supporting other financial resources of investment outlays on the level of the community. Conducted research aims at: (1) Defining phenomenon of synergy and its effects. (2) Determining phenomenon of synergy...

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