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Islamic banks and finance and the possibility of agricultural investments in the Republic of Serbia [PDF]
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2017 Financing the economy and agriculture as well in the Republic of Serbia in recent past present was realized and has been implemented with the financial and credit support of the state, as well as through expensive commercial bank loans and financial ...
Kačar Bahrija +2 more
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Land, 2022 The creation of an accurate simulation of future urban growth is considered to be one of the most important challenges of the last five decades that involves spatial modeling within a GIS environment.
Anasua Chakraborty +3 more
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Land, 2022 Our research aims at unveiling the various drivers that can have an impact on urban densification. Unlike the usual logistic modelling techniques, our study considers multi-level built-up densities ranging from low to high built-up density.
Anasua Chakraborty +2 more
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Economic development in the European super-periphery: Evidence from the Western Balkans [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2009 This paper argues that the conflicts that afflicted the Western Balkan region in the 1990s pushed the countries into the European 'super-periphery', characterized by deindustrialization and high unemployment, ethnic and regional fragmentation, political ...
Bartlett Will
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Women’s leadership in local government in the Caribbean
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2016 Women and men are traditionally cast in different roles, with males being leaders in the workplace, home and government. In contrast, communities promote women as caregivers who support male leaders and shape future generations as mothers, mentors and ...
Kizzann Lee Sam
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Contextualizing Local Economic Development for Developing Countries [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 This paper explores the prospects of success of ‘Local Economic Development’ (LED) for the less developed countries. The concept had much success in the context of the developed world. The less developed countries, however, present a scenario where power and social structures present a challenging task for LED to be effective.
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Public sector restructuring and regional development: the impact of compulsory competitive tendering in the UK [PDF]
, 2002 This paper contributes to the analysis of contemporary public sector restructuring in the UK through an evaluation of the impact of the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) for the provision of local public services.
Patterson, A., Pinch, P. L.
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Supporting local governance and local economic development – some experiences from Swaziland [PDF]
, 2016 In the December 2012 issue of this Journal, Lucy Slack and Susan Rhodes (2012) of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) introduced a new CLGF programme focussing on improving governance and service delivery at local level in selected ...
Parker, Terry
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College Openings and Local Economic Development
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled workers in the region.
Berlingieri, Francesco +2 more
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Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2018 In the United States, local economic development is increasingly being managed by nonprofit organizations. However, the institutional arrangement of local economic development is an understudied topic in the scholarly literature on nonprofit management ...
William Hatcher, Augustine Hammond
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