OECD Report Shows How Local Policy Can Meet Globalisation Challenge

Globalisation provides new opportunities for devolved government. By tailoring economic policies to exploit local capabilities, regional and city authorities can often be more effective than central governments in meeting the challenges of tough...

City Renewal and Health - Making the Links

City Renewal and Health Making the Links Thursday 6th December 2001 to Friday 7th December 2001, Central London Health and prosperity go hand in hand. They both need and enhance one another. Leaders of the world's largest cities have ...

Clusters in Transition Economies

The LEED Programme is dedicated to expanding its activities to reach out to non-member countries in the east and south. Currently, LEED is undertaking a series of seminars on clusters in transition economies in the framework of the Central Europe...

International Workshop on Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition, 12. - 13. November 2001

The aim of the workshop was bringing together some of the world's leading experts in the field of innovation research and regional economics in order to improve our knowledge on how regional innovation clusters work and how policymakers (particula...

Central European Initiative Annual Summit in Trieste 21-24 November 2001

The Central European Initiative (CEI) was founded by Austria, Hungary, Italy and Yugoslavia in 1989 and has grown to include sixteen participating countries. The primary goal of the CEI is to promote European integration and to assist non-EU memb...

LEED-CEI-EBRD project on Industrial Districts and Local Clusters 2001-2002

Clusters in Transition Economies - Strategies for Innovation and Growth at a Cross-National Perspective.

LEEDDCNovember

39th Session, LEED Directing Committee Meeting, OECD Paris

Corporate Social Responsibility : Partners for Progress

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is business's contribution to sustainable development.Today, corporate behaviour must not only ensure returns to shareholders, wages to employees, and products and services to customers, it must also respond to societal and environmental concerns.

Best Practices in Local Development

This book identifies the strong potential of the local development approach to help regenerate the economies and societies of less developed regions and to bring greater local participation in the decision-making and actions that underpin restructuring.

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• Mejores prácticas de desarrollo local
• Mejores prácticas de desarrollo local

Devolution and Globalisation: Implications for Local Decision-makers

This book sets out a vision of devolved economic development policies capable of responding to the challenges of globalisation. The key features in this vision are flexible and networked institutions and local strategies emphasising entrepreneurship, human capital and social

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• Devolution and Globalisation: Implications for Local Decision-makers in Russian
• Devolution and Globalisation: Implications for Local Decision-makers in Russian