The paper highlights the link between the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) designation and the development of cultural tourism in Europe. Cultural tourism is the fastest growing segment of tourism in the world and is the desirable objective of new defined cultural policies in European cities....

Strategic Planning is a creative, practical planning process for community change. Community Strategic Planning produces a visionary statement of what the community wants to be 10 to 20 years in the future. There is no one ideal strategic planning process that has worked for all communities and...

Innovations are considered to discover new solutions to exploit novelty in the technological, but in social and economic fields as well. It means, the concept of innovations is true also for a sustainable development. The sustainability of the regional strategies is studied at the background of...

The article deals with application of the general HERMIN model on regional level, evaluating structural funds impact on regional economy. The HERMIN model is frequently used for structural funds evaluation in several EU countries, including Slovakia, but on national level. The main aim of this...

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,...

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Even today poverty is a serious problem in both developing and developed countries. Before 1989 Czechoslovakia was a communist state with a centrally planned economy. In November 1989 the Velvet Revolution restored democracy in the country and on 1 January 1993 Czechoslovakia split into two...

It is always difficult to define the one and only measure of poverty, as there are different concepts of poverty based on a number of welfare indicators. The paper discuses main approaches to individual welfare measurement. A measure of individual welfare in the concept of relative deprivation...