Local Innovations for Growth in Central and Eastern Europe [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)
Giguère, Sylvain.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2007.
Local development strategies represent an important response to the challenges of globalisation, while providing a mechanism for seizing the new opportunities that globalisation offers. Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, this book evaluates progress made and identifies what needs to be done to speed up the drive towards prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the success of local development strategies depends on the capacity of the government and its partners to accelerate change within the policy and governance aspects of economic and social development.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Enforcing the Participation of Civil Society in Local Decision Making -- Strengthening Non-governmental Organisations for More Effective Local Governance and Partnerships in Serbia -- Mobilising the Population for Maximum Impact: UNDP's Experience in Albania -- Building a Governance Framework that Enables the Establishment of Partnerships in Slovenia -- Governance and Local Economic Development: In Search of an Appropriate Governance Structure for Croatia -- Local Governance for Economic Development -- Participatory Democracy -- Fiscal Autonomy and the Incentives to Stimulate Business Growth and Efficient Public Goods Provision: The Case of Belarus -- Local Innovations for Growth in Central and Eastern Europe -- Tackling the Problem of Inadequate Financing for Local Development: The Case of Croatia -- Executive Summary -- Fostering Local Development in Bulgaria: The Need of Fiscal Decentralisation -- Institutions, Governance and the Development of Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe -- The Experience of Public-private Partnerships in Financing Entrepreneurship in Eastern Germany and Poland -- Community Development Banking to Foster Entrepreneurship.
Local development strategies represent an important response to the challenges of globalisation, while providing a mechanism for seizing the new opportunities that globalisation offers. Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, this book evaluates progress made and identifies what needs to be done to speed up the drive towards prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the success of local development strategies depends on the capacity of the government and its partners to accelerate change within the policy and governance aspects of economic and social development.
Employment
Governance
Urban, Rural and Regional Development