Aim: Local development strategy is a widespread and commonly used instrument in public management. Strategies are applied by municipalities to develop their full potential. A key factor in effective use of strategies for local development are criteria for selecting strategic goals. The article...

Our paper explores, on a theoretical level, the reason for frequent failures of rural development policies and identifies some potential improvements in rural policy making in Europe. Our approach to des/integration concerns actors, resources, institutions, knowledge, the fundamental logic of...

Lionel Robbins famously distinguishes between technological problems, in which variable means confront a given end, and economic problems, in which given means are allocated across competing ends. This essay explores the implications of this distinction for poverty alleviation. We argue that...