The paper discusses the perspectives for local and regional development in Slovakia and provides the analysis of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) in the Slovak Republic. The special focus is given to Kosice and Presov self-governmental region. The financial mechanism for...

Regions can be defined in many ways; they can be viewed generally as a system with a large variety of alternative strategic alternatives of inputs and outputs, influenced by the interests of numerous actors. This gives a good reason for the use of system tools for structuring the relationships,...