OECD Territorial Reviews
Subtitle: Finland 2005
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD Territorial Reviews; OECD territorial reviews
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789264012783
Subjects: Governance; Rural and Regional Development Urban
Description: This book reviews Finland's success in achieving balanced development over the past decade and assesses the challenges that it faces in maintaining this success.  Given intense competition in both ICT and more traditional product markets, as well as rapid ageing of the population, it looks at how Finland might maintain and enhance the competitiveness of the regions that are the nation's economic drivers and how the country can promote innovation and entrepreneurship in intermediate cities particularly vulnerable to low cost competition.  It also examines how Finland might facilitate growth in those regions that have potential for development, but so far have been less successful in exploiting their comparative advantages.
Table of contents: title: Assessment and Recommendations; title: Chapter 1. Regional Performance and Underused Potential; title: -Introduction; title: Major Macroeconomic Trends; title: Regional Trends; title: Underused Potentials; title: Major issues; title: Chapter 2. Strategies and Policies; title: Introduction; title: Innovation-Led Policies; title: Service Delivery in Areas with Population Decline; title: Chapter 3. Governance Issues; title: Regional Policy Challenges; title: The Institutional Framework; title: Vertical and Horizontal Coordination; title: Citizen Participation; title: Future Developments; title: Annex A. OECD Regional Typology; title: Bibliography