Die Gewährleistung gleichwertiger Lebensverhältnisse in den Teilräumen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist neben einer nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung die zentrale Leitvorstellung der Raumordnung. Durch die im September 2018 von der Bundesregierung eingesetzte Kommission „Gleichwertige...

A successful post-conflict reconstruction is characterized by a self-sustaining liberal political, economic and social order that does not rely on external support. It is argued that the extent of reconstructed orders is constrained by their institutional prerequisites. These prerequisites - a...

Migration has become a major concern of European development policies. By improving socio-economic and political conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach is examined by analyzing the causes of asylum migration from...

A literature review of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) shows that the main contributions focus on the development of theoretical models, but not on guidelines for practical implementation. In this context, an important neglected aspect is the...

Community-led local development (CLLD), initiated as LEADER in 1991, is a bottom-up-oriented, participatory approach driven by cooperation between local actors in rural areas. It forms part of regional development programmes (RDPs), which are the basis of funding in rural areas in the EU....

Im Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierungsparteien SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen und FDP ist festgehalten, dass die Gemeinschaftsaufgabe 'Verbesserung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes' (GAK) stärker an den Zielen der Koalition ausgerichtet werden solle. Das Bundesministerium für...

Functional delineated labour market regions are needed for regional economic analyses. In dependence of the definition of regions economic regions in space can be seen as rich or poor areas. In addition to this statistical and econometric reasons argue for using functional labour market regions....

Im Oktober 2011 hat die Europäische Kommission ihre Legislativvorschläge für die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) und die Strukturpolitik für die Finanzperiode 2014 bis 2020 veröffentlicht. Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht gibt einen Überblick über die relevanten Verordnungsentwürfe und eine...

World cities are important nodes in the global networks of knowledge-based economies. As a result of the growing complexity of knowledge creation, firms increasingly organise their activities in business networks that operate across different spatial scales. On the global scale, new information...

An increasing number of municipalities cooperates in the field of economic development. In this paper, we focus on a specific instrument in this field, namely the development of joint business parks. We apply a hazard model to data from West-German municipalities between 2000 and 2015. We find...