Search Results - subject:"Local Economic Development"

Information and Communication Technologies and Local Economic Development Policies: The British Case

Gibbs, David; Tanner, Keith - In: Regional Studies 31 (1997) 8, pp. 765-774

GIBBS D. and TANNER K. (1997) Information and communication technologies and local economic development policies: the … economic development strategies. Much of the evidence for this in Great Britain is partial and anecdotal. This paper provides … to address this problem local authorities have increasingly incorporated ICT policies and initiatives into their local …

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Asymmetries in Regional Integration and Local Development

Giordano, Paolo; Lanzafame, Francesco; Meyer-Stamer, Jörg - Inter-American Development Bank

This volume discusses frameworks for policies that can help offset the polarizing effects that may be generated by the asymmetrical distribution of the costs and benefits of integration into the global economy.

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New challenges for rural development in Vaslui County (North-Eastern Romania)

Dobay, Krisztina Melinda - In: Rural Areas and Development 6

The aim of this article is to present the results of a project implemented in Romania between December 2006 and March 2008. The project entitled â€œStudy Regarding the Prospective Valuation of the Socio-Economic Development of the Rural Space in Vaslui Countyâ€ was driven by the Vaslui...

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Economic Integration and Dvelopment of Local Public Sector in Serbia

Brnjas, Zvonko; Dedeic, Predrag - In: European Integration Process in Western Balkan Countries

economic development are elaborated and the present situation regarding each of the specified assumptions is presented and … Serbia is made. In the last part of the chapter the major assumptions necessary to create efficient and effective local …

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Urban Growth and Spatial Transition in Nepal : An Initial Assessment

Muzzini, Elisa; Aparicio, Gabriela - Economics Research, World Bank Group

Nepal is undergoing two momentous transformations-from a rural to an urbanizing economy and from a unitary to a federal state. This book aims at understanding the first of these two transitions: Nepal's journey toward becoming a predominantly urban economy. The study carries out an initial...

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Asymmetries in Regional Integration and Local Development

Giordano, Paolo; Lanzafame, Francesco; Meyer-Stamer, Jörg - Inter-American Development Bank

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What Should the Federal Government Be Doing About Urban Economic Development?

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Discussion [of the Effects of State and Local Public Services on Economic Development by Ronald C. Fisher]

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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LOKALNY ROZWÓJ GOSPODARCZY W POLSCE: KONWERGENCJA CZY DYWERGENCJA?

Kołodziejczyk, Danuta - In: Roczniki (Annals), 2

The research is aimed at presenting economic development trends of the gminas in Poland and concluding whether the process of convergence of divergence takes place there. On the basis of selected features, the synthetic indicator of economic development in 2005 and 2012 was calculated using the...

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The Effects of State and Local Taxes on Economic Development: A Review of Recent Research

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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