Development processes occur within a wider geographical area than local government, and in some cases encompass a broader scope than provincial or national governments.
This Review of Venice, Italy, offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region's economy and the extent to which its land use, labour market and environmental policies embrace a metropolitan vision.
Aunque Mexico ha presentado estabilidad macroeconomica en anos recientes, el pais aun padece de un estancamiento en el crecimiento de su productividad.
The radical transformation that Spanish rural areas have experienced in the past few decades suggest, as it has occurred in many OECD countries, a new approach to rural policy.
Ce rapport passe en revue les defis et les opportunites associes a la conception et a l'utilisation de systemes d'indicateurs dans le contexte de la gouvernance pluriniveaux.
Les differences entre regions de l'OCDE sont souvent plus grandes que les differences entre les pays de l'OCDE, et d'importantes inegalites persistent.
This report examines both the challenges and the opportunities associated with designing and using indicator systems as a tool for the governance of regional development policy.
Social enterprises are entering a new phase of consolidation after overcoming various challenges over the last 10 years in their efforts to foster sustainable local development, help create local wealth and jobs, and fight social exclusion.
The Cape Town city-region, which is the second-largest area in South Africa (4 million inhabitants), reflects the national challenge of creating new economic opportunities while correcting past inequities.
Bien que la Pologne ait reussi a maintenir depuis le milieu des annees 90 une forte croissance, la deuxieme plus elevee des pays de l'OCDE en 2006-2007, les disparites territoriales persistent et se creusent, surtout entre les grandes agglomerations et les zones rurales.
Although Poland has managed to maintain high growth levels since the mid-1990s, with the second-best performance in the OECD in 2006-07, territorial disparities are persistent and rising, especially between large urban areas and rural ones.
Stimulating innovative and growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a key economic and societal challenge to which universities and colleges have much to contribute.
The competition to stage major global events - such as OIympic Games, EXPOs, cultural festivals, and political summits - is more intense than ever before.
Faced with high population density, close proximity of urban areas and urban-rural linkages, rural areas in the Netherlands have witnessed a gradual disappearance of characteristically rural landscapes and a deterioration of biodiversity.
Social economy -- also known as 'non-profit' or 'third sector' -- organisations have grown in number and relevance, contributing to employment, social inclusion, democratic participation and community building.
Le Grand-Duch de Luxembourg a engag avec succs une profonde mutation de son conomie en l'espace de quelques dcennies, passant d'un tissu productif bas essentiellement sur la sidrurgie une conomie base sur le secteur financier.
Local development strategies represent an important response to the challenges of globalisation, while providing a mechanism for seizing the new opportunities that globalisation offers.
Few other countries feature the combination of very low population densities and difficult topography that hinders communication, in addition to a variety of contrasting climates.
Peu de pays conjuguent, comme la Norvege, une densite de population tres faible et des handicaps topographiques qui freinent les communications, outre un climat contraste.
Despite concern about the negative impacts of globalisation on the economies of OECD regions, notably the loss of manufacturing jobs and enterprise relocation, this report presents evidence that region-specific advantages - embedded in specialised firms, skilled labour and innovation capacity - remain a significant source of productivity gain for firms, even for the largest multinational enterprises.
City and regional governments as well as development agencies will learn from this report how to develop their own toolbox of instruments and structures for leveraging private finance.
En cette ere de mondialisation, les axes regionaux de specialisation, qui avaient mis plusieurs decennies a s'etablir, sont desormais en pleine mutation.
Urban areas represent an important part of the national economy and feature higher GDP per capita and productivity levels than their country's average.
Esta revision de Mexico evalua las estrategias emergentes de desarrollo territorial asi como los cambios significativos en la gestion publica, tales como los nuevos mecanismos de coordinacion horizontal y vertical que estan siendo introducidos junto con disposiciones federales mejoradas.
Dans cet examen detaille des politiques, sont passes en revue les faits nouveaux en matiere de politique regionale en France et, en particulier, les enjeux des politiques de competitivite et de la gouvernance multiniveaux.