This paper analyses Local Economic Development and examines the role and the significance of city’s internal … characteristics and development policies with firm competitiveness is taken place. The main arguments support that except firms … characteristics and also urban development policies are connected with the competitiveness of firms that are located in cities …

necessitates the unification of the Balkan space, through the unification of the areas’ spatial development axes. This fact is of …, to audit the main problems of this process and to propose specific development policies in order to confront these …

This paper examines the partnership in development policies between the World Bank/IMF and the United Nations. Poverty … Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) are instruments used by the Washington institutions to achieve the Millenium Development Goals … (MDG) initiated by the UN. We review and interpret the genesis and development of MDGs and PRSPs in this perspective, and …

their assets (agglomeration economies, urban infrastructures, factors of labor and cost, etc.), the degree of development … image supporting through this way cities development and firms competitiveness. The analysis uses primary data from 310 …

development policy, as prevailing in the Objective 1 area in Europe from 1999, based on decentralization and multilevel governance … failure) of this development policy approach is strictly connected either with new frame of governance rules or with their … specific development policies and measures. Finally the outcome policy will be not predetermined, but it will depend from how …

The purpose of this working paper is to give the real meaning of DEVELOPMENT from Islamic perspective. Most of Muslim … moral and ethical change for development in these countries. Islam appears to be the only dynamic religion and tells us … economics. Some scholars of WEST consider use of Islamic banking more suitable for economic development, while others consider …

in furthering economic growth and development. The implications for the donor community of the decreasing relative … particular, that much greater care should be exercised when applying macro performance evaluation to development assistance. This …

institutional quality such that, the institutional downside of development assistance maybe questionable when greater domestic … institutional development has taken place. Based on the hypothesis of institutional thresholds for foreign aid effectiveness, the … perilous character of development assistance to institutional quality is broadly confirmed in 53 African countries for the …

This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future …. Second, development thinking is in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider both the Bank’s research … grounded in the key knowledge gaps for development policy emerging from the experiences of developing countries, including the …

International development agencies are increasingly looking to business as a partner in achieving development outcomes …. Engaging business in development has become a central plank of many countries’ aid policies. However, the potential of public …-private partnerships for development is still largely unrealised. Business and development agencies would benefit from a better …