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The Changing Boundaries of Social Enterprises

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27-Feb-2009

This book contains recommendations for national and local policy makers and presents a set of international best practices for social enterprises.

Local Development Benefits from Staging Global Events

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27-Mar-2008

This book identifies how international events work as a trigger for local development and what hosting cities and nations can do to ensure that positive local development is realised.

More Than Just Jobs: Workforce Development in a Skills-Based Economy

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27-Mar-2008

This report provides valuable insights into how labour policies can be expanded to meet economic development and social cohesion goals, while also reconciling national and local concerns...

Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches

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07-Dec-2006

"Competitive Regional Clusters: National Policy Approaches" analyses the objectives, targeting, instruments and inter-governmental role sharing used by 26 programmes in 14 OECD countries.

OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance: Japan

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02-Aug-2006

This site contains a list of key references on Japan. The documentary database includes documents on partnership and local governance that have been published by governments, universities and other organisations.

Local Governance for Promoting Employment —Comparing the Performance of Japan and Seven Countries—

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28-Oct-2005

This publication has just been released following the workshop on "Local Employment Development" organised in Tokyo, Japan, on February 9-10, 2005. This was a joint event of the LEED Programme and the ...

Policy Brief : OECD Territorial Review of Japan

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20-Sep-2005

In recent years Japan has been challenged by important socioeconomic changes. Low economic growth, population ageing and depopulation, and new trade relationships with the East Asia region have made it ...