Different levels of government, multilateral organisations such as the World Bank (WB), and a great number of non-governmental organisations around the globe state either explicitly or implicitly their intentions to improve the development of places. Their main goal is to help societies to...

People's quality of life in specific places is affected by their territories' characteristics and local agents' actions and interactions, as well as their responses to external influences. Formal and informal institutions contribute to shape those actions, interactions and responses. Following...

Since the early 1990s, experts across the economic development world have increasingly supported a sub-national response to the development challenges and opportunities stemming from economic globalisation and financial crisis. Recently, a notable number of studies stress the favourable impact...