Although Afghanistan has made significant gains over the years, vulnerabilities remain. The economic program Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) has been developed to sustain democracy, reduce poverty, and improve growth. ANDS, an important milestone in the rebuilding and...

M AKI -A RVELA P. (2003) Regional evolutions in Finland: panel data results of a VAR approach to labour market dynamics, Reg. Studies 37 , 423- 443. The purpose of this paper is firstly to evaluate how large and sustained regional differences are in Finland and how the division of these...

For two decades now the cluster and network concept has been associated with economic growth and an upgrade of the local economic structure by many regional political actors. At the same time, although this concept is an extremely popular instrument of regional structural development among...