Have equilibrium conditions between social and ecological systems, guide the need to promote and diversify research models to analyze their relationship elements. In this regard, in order to provide elements that contribute to a comprehensive approach to the dynamics of community enterprise...

The objective of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of regional incentive policy applied in Spain during the period 1988-2001 at a municipal scale. Specifically, the relation between economic growth and the amount of incentives received by each Spanish municipality is analysed, taking...

The article offers some reflections on the important changes that local development has experienced along the last decades. In particular, it emphasizes the strong and increasing presence of uncertainties and the complex character of the actual urban and territorial problems. All this must be...

Local public management in all states is strongly influenced by the global economic crisis. Problems in the local economy significantly influence the capacity of public institutions to create and deliver services for business environment and citizens. Globalization and the crises context have...

The article deals with issues of formation of community building concept and its main tenets. There were analyzed exogenous and endogenous approaches to community building, defined their characteristics and methods of implementation in this article.

Financing local activities at an appropriate level by reference to local communities’ development needs cannot be left, especially where these needs are major, solely to the account of ordinary resources, but loan resources must complete them. However, the existence of a legal framework...

This paper is about the links between entrepreneurship determinants, entrepreneurship rate and entrepreneurship consequences. A model relating demographic, cultural, economical and institutional antecedents to entrepreneurship rate and to economic and social regional performance is proposed and...

The aim of the research project was to find an answer to the question whether spatial variations in the level of socio-economic development of rural Poland are gradually disappearing thanks to the cohesion policy pursued in the country or still growing despite this policy. It was assumed that...

In Mexico, the municipal governments have acquired the character of government with full rights and own competition since the constitutional reforms of 1999. In the same reforms period, the municipality has grown significantly in numbers of employees, management of economic resources, political...