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Devolution and delivery: recent rural policy-making in Scotland
Thomson, Kenneth J. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Since 1999, Scotland has (re)gained a considerable degree of political independence from the rest of the UK, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693161
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Rural policy in Scotland after devolution
Keating, Michael; Stevenson, Linda - In: Regional Studies 40 (2006) 3, pp. 397-407
Keating M. and Stevenson L. (2006) Rural policy in Scotland after devolution, Regional Studies 40, 397-407. Governments … distinctiveness in Scotland. Rural and agriculture policy are devolved in Scotland but ate also highly Europeanized. Devolution has …-contained in Scotland. Scotland has gone its own way on several important issues, but Europe is a force for convergence of policy …
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Public Preferences for Rural Policy Reform: Evidence from Scottish Surveys
McVittie, Alistair; Moran, Dominic; Elston, David - In: Regional Studies 44 (2010) 5, pp. 609-626
McVittie A., Moran D. and Elston D. Public preferences for rural policy reform: evidence from Scottish surveys, Regional Studies. Agricultural reform across the European Union has focused debate on how agriculture delivers wider rural objectives. The authors undertook economic valuation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674849
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Modernizing Rural Economies: Strengthening Economic Growth in the 21st Century
David, Freshwater - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky - 2013
Most rural regions are weak participants in the modern economy. As a result they are often seen as inherently incapable of sustained economic growth. Yet, OECD evidence shows that there are rural regions with relatively high rates of economic growth. Increasing the number of high performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882820
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Integrated rural development - The concept and its operation
Nemes, Gusztav - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2005
Our paper explores, on a theoretical level, the reason for frequent failures of rural development policies and identifies some potential improvements in rural policy making in Europe. Our approach to des/integration concerns actors, resources, institutions, knowledge, the fundamental logic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005242962
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Changes in rural areas of Ukraine: problems and opportunities
Moroz, Serhiy Mykolayovych - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
The paper describes the main tendencies and perspectives of development of rural areas in Ukraine. It emphasizes that the key reason of existing socio-economic issues in rural regions is the absence of well-defined rural development policy. Thus, it is necessary for Ukraine to implement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693195
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Editorial[: Rural Change and the Revalorisation of Rural Property Objects]
Laschewski, Lutz; Penker, Marianne - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 8 (2009) 1, pp. 1-13
Property regimes shape the social relations, in particular, social settings, and represent an important element for external intervention and sustainable rural development. The introduction recalls common aspects and specific conceptualisations of property analysis in the field of economics,...
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Análisis Input-Output de la eficacia de la Política Europea de Desarrollo Rural 2007-2013. Propuesta metodológica y resultados para Castilla-La Mancha/The Effectiveness of European...
SANTIAGO, LÓPEZ; ANTONIO, LUÍS; MONSALVE, FABIO; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 29 (2011) Abril, pp. 223-246
La implementación del nuevo Fondo Europeo Agrícola de Desarrollo Rural (FEADER) refleja la decidida apuesta de la Unión Europea por convertir la Política de Desarrollo Rural en el segundo pilar de la Política Agrícola Común (PAC). La eficacia del FEADER para conseguir los objetivos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149007
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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS ON A LOCAL SCALE BEYOND 2013 – THE CASE OF CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND (SCOTLAND, UK)
Bergmann, Holger; Thomson, Kenneth J. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2009
Scotland. A modified version of a system dynamics model constructed for an EU-wide case-study project (TOP-MARD) was used to … Scotland. Several alternative modelling scenarios were developed, mostly relating to reconfigurations of Pillar 2 spending …
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Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies.
Food, Panel on Enhancing the Data Infrastructure in … - Mathematica Policy Research; Research; of which Ronette …; … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010923736