The present paper examines the economic development perspectives of the manufacturing sector of 31 major West German regions in the process of globalisation. Public statistics do not provide FDI data on a regional basis. Therefore our study was based on indicators based on the data from the...

The study aimed at identifying factors limiting the Tietê and Paraná valleys economic growth. Specifically, it analyzed the importance of the capital stocks for economic growth of these and the other counties in São Paulo State. Nine factors were generated by Principal Components Method to...

Abstract This study develops a conceptual model of the institutions and key factors that facilitate competitiveness on the national and subsector level and then determines how linkages between the factors that enhance competitiveness and regional development can be created. Turkey and the...

The paper strives to introduce opportunities for information support of regions by means of a map output within www application. It presents a recent solution of a map portal using a database of organic farms in the Czech Republic. The map outputs are visualized by means of a new version of the...

The main objective of the study was to evaluate the potential of investment attractiveness of rural areas in Poland. An attempt was made at setting up a hierarchy and grouping of municipalities and regions in Poland in terms of a synthetic index of attractiveness for investors. In addition, an...

The EU Common Agricultural Policy creates great opportunities for the areas of Eastern Poland, mainly by means of promoting a change of its orientation towards the development of its multifunctionality. These processes must be accompanied by an increase of GDP stimulating an increase in...

Aim of study was to determine the state and conditions for development of traditional Podkarpacie products. An analysis was realized by using GUS (Central Statistical Office) statistical data and data from a survey among Podkarpacie region inhabitants as first consumers and critics of...

On the way of European integration, the Ukrainian government poses the number of priority tasks which need to be solved before entering the European Union. Among them is: - reforms in relations between government institutions and main socio-economical activities, - definition of the principles...

A multiregional econometric model evaluates the impacts of changes in monetary policy on economic development in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan parts of each of the four principal U S Census regions Regional variations in the adaptation to a change in national monetary policy depend on a...