This paper reveals that domestic credit is becoming more involved in local economic development, even if it is considered an expensive resource. The loans are presented as a resource available for various “actors” of the local community – individuals, business agents and local authorities.

The main objective of this paper was to evaluate the activity of local authorities, particularly cooperation activities with other entities (including APA) to develop and implement a common strategy of obtaining investment areas - including actions taken to promote investment areas. Uses the...

The paper defines conditions necessary for a financial base of a local government, proposes a technique to analyze the structure, fiscal sustainability and efficiency of subfederal fiscal policy examined on the basis of fiscal data on Novosibirsk Oblast for the period 2006–2012. We have...

The paper is based on intensive longitudinal field research. It suggests an interpretative model of territorial governement in France. Relations between national and local authorities as well as policy-making processes suggest that the centralized state has face a major decline of its hegemony...

Beginning in 2003, Turkey initiated a series of reforms under the Health Transformation Program (HTP) that over the past decade have led to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC). The progress of Turkey?s health system has few, if any, parallels in scope and speed. Before the...

The paper objectifies the first part of a larger projects aiming at establishing a public decision-making map pertaining to the negative externalities in the framework of the economic approach of subsidiarity in the multilevel governance (the case of Romania). The first part of the larger...

The article discusses current approaches to the process of assessing rural development governance, reveals its advantages and disadvantages. The article as well presents performance system indicators of governance process by means of two elements of dynamics assessment, rural development...

This paper examines practices and approaches taken by local governments in Indonesia as a response to the issue of street vendors as an example of the informal economic actor. The paper aims to unravel the conceptual understanding of the economic role of street vendors. Using case studies and...