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Regions economically differ from each other - they compete in different products and geographical spaces, exhibit different strengths and weaknesses, and provide different possibilities for growth and development. What fosters growth in one region may hamper it in another. This …
Localized creativity, small high-tech entrepreneurship, related innovation platforms, social capital embedded in dynamically open territorial communities and context-specific though continuously upgrading policy platforms are all means to face new challenges and to promote incre…
Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ' policy' is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoot…
Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. This book explores complex adaptive innovative systems.
Although competitiveness is typically associated with firms, they are not the only organizational body whose performance is dependent upon competitiveness. This poignant insightful book focuses on how the varied economic performance of cities and regions, both within nations as …
Based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the South-west Yukon, this title explores how land claims and co-management, as aspects of a new and evolving relationship between Kluane First Nation and the state, are affecting Kluane people and their way of life.
EMU and the regions
by Krugman, Paul R., Dehesa, Guillermo de la
fromOccasional papers / Group of Thirty
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Type: Book
The regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous changes in European regions and by shifts in thinking and analysis. The issues raised by the changes to region…
Peripheries emerge as a result of shifts in economic and political decision-making at various scales. Therefore peripheral spaces are not a 'natural' phenomenon but an outcome of the intrinsic logic of uneven geographical development in capitalist societies. Discussing examples …