Decentralizing the allocation of public goods by giving funds directly to communities takes advantage of local information concerning needs, but decreases the accountability over how funds are used; leaving funds open to misuse or capture by local elites. In Indonesia, the World Bank attempts to...

The Republic of Moldova has a rich potential for the rural tourism prosperity which, by virtue of the historical traditions of the geographical conditions, is the most dynamic form of the domestic tourism. The Republic of Moldova, as a tourist destination, has a rich potential for its visitors....

Regional competitiveness, understood as the ability of regions to promote, attract and sustain the economic activity, so that their population can reach and maintain a high living standard, is the object of the present analytical approach. The results of the study reveled that the economy of the...

Die Aktivierung lokaler und regionaler Potenziale gilt als der zentrale Ansatz ländlicher Entwicklungspolitik, um über den Sektor Landwirtschaft hinausgehend und unabhängig von zufälligen externen Investitionen einen eigenständigen Entwicklungspfad einzuschlagen. Mit der Schaffung eines...

This study aims to analyze the factors that determine rural tourism competitiveness in Indonesia, measure the tourism competitiveness in each rural tourism, and discover the gap between rural tourism in four provinces. This study adopts the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR) Model...

Traditional Industrial Organization models predict that restraining competitive forces should unequivocally produce welfare losses. However, recent empirical literature questions the conventional wisdom on the topic, and reveals that there is a trade-off between competition and stability of...