Greek economic crisis and its impact on regional development and policy In the past 3 decades the main financial support mechanism for the development of Greek Regions was the European Cohesion Policy and less national instruments as the Regional Investment Framework and public investments....

Stage 1. Assessing the problems and defining the main policy orientations -- Stage 2. Designing a solution-oriented intervention system -- Stage 3. Specifying objectives and matching these with instruments -- Stage 4. Implementing actions and delivering results -- Stage 5. Checking effectiveness...

This paper relates on the impact of global crisis on China from a systemic point of view. In what ways external and internal adaptation pressures influenced the transformation of the party-state system in China? Did reactions have an impact on the transformation of political or economic system?...

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