Regional and area planning

This review addresses the territorial dimension of a range of policy challenges in the Ukraine, including Urkraine's productivity challenge, large inter-regional disparities, and need for decentralisation.

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Chile has been very successful in turning its natural resource endowments into a generator of growth and modernisation.

Regional development policy is a priority of Colombia's government.

Comment va la vie?

Prepared at the request of the City of Venice, this report explores the implications for Venice of the adoption in 2014 of new legislation on the governance of metropolitan cities.

How's life?

The Dutch economy has been traditionally very competitive among OECD countries.

Ports and cities are historically strongly linked, but the link between port and city growth has become weaker.

Encompassing 39 municipalities in two states, Puebla-Tlaxcala is the fourth-largest metropolitan zone in Mexico.

Regions and cities are on the front lines of many challenges faced by OECD countries today, from education and jobs to health care and quality of life.

This urban renaissance review of Glasgow looks back over the 1990s, when a succession of strategic initiatives and major events brought regeneration to several key parts of the city, including along the banks of the Clyde, and helped lift investment and activity.

This review of Mexico evaluates emerging territorial development strategies as well as relevant changes in governance, such as new horizontal and vertical co-ordination mechanisms, being introduced in conjunction with improved federal arrangements.

This publication reports on current definitions and uses of functional regions in the OECD countries.

This comprehensive territorial review of Canberra identifies strategies and policy recommendations that can help local agencies and actors better meet the challenges they face.

This book sets out a vision of devolved economic development policies capable of responding to the challenges of globalisation.

This report synthesises the findings from six case studies of urban green growth policies, four at city level (Paris, Chicago, Stockholm, Kitakyushu) and two at the national level (China, Korea).

This report studies green growth trends, challenges and opportunities in the City of Kitakyushu, Japan.

This review of Chile's urban policy finds that Chile has undergone significant transformation in the past three decades, including growth in GDP, population levels and urbanisation.

There is an emerging consensus concerning a new strategic mode for spatial policy.

To better respond to a new set of concerns of the population and promote sustainable development, governments today actively seek a broad partnership with civil society and the private sector.

This book sets out a potential response to two major challenges facing OECD countries: the "e;youth problem"e;, or the need to ensure that young people can play a full role in society, and the need to foster entrepreneurship for job creation, innovation and economic adaptability.

Este informe evalua el bienestar en los cuatro aglomerados urbanos mas grandes de la provincia de Cordoba (Argentina) y proporciona recomendaciones de politicas para fortalecer las practicas de desarrollo regional y, en ultima instancia, mejorar el bienestar de las personas.

Belfast is at a turning point in its history.

Los sistemas productivos locales no son recientes, pero estan siendo anunciados por muchos como la solucion a la crisis de las estructuras industriales tradicionales.

In many OECD countries, governments have invested large amounts of public money to support renewable energy (RE) development and are requiring significant quantities of it to be sold by energy providers.

The OECD Green Growth Strategy aims to provide concrete recommendations and measurement tools, including indicators, to support countries' efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies.

Il Rapporto L'azione delle politiche a seguito di disastri naturali: aiutare le regioni a sviluppare resilienza rappresenta il primo studio dell'OCSE sulle strategie multi-settoriali nelle regioni post disastro e fornisce raccomandazioni concrete sul come portare avanti l'impegno di ricostruzione in Abruzzo a seguito del terremoto che nel 2009 ha colpito L'Aquila (capoluogo di regione) e l'area circostante.

Abruzzo is at a tipping point: despite economic, cultural and natural strengths, the region is facing declining economic growth, ageing population and a reduction in outside economic aid.

Avaliao e recomendaes Captulo 1.

Social enterprises straddle the border between the public and the private sector and break new ground in the allocation and management of economic resources, forming what the European Commission calls the "e;third system"e;.

Cet ouvrage examine l'innovation regionale en Wallonie, Belgique, en regardant son role dans l'economie, sa gouvernance et le contexte politique et des strategies regionales de croissance axee sur l'innovation.

This book examines regional innovation in central and southern Denmark, looking at its role in the economy, its governance and policy context and regional strategies for innovation driven growth.

The OECD Territorial Review of Skane assesses the capacity of the third largest region in Sweden to compete for investment and talents in an increasingly globalised economy.

This book presents the conclusions of a meeting of the Sahel and West Africa Club in Accra, Ghana, in May 2002 on the following topic : "e;Towards a Better Regional Approach to Development in West Africa"e;.

Moving people and freight in an environmentally sustainable manner will be one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.

OECD countries are undergoing an unprecedented increase in the proportion of elderly people among their total populations.

While Man conquered outer space in the 20th century, surface transportation congestion remains a vexing challenge for OECD metropolitan cities in the new Millennium.

This publication highlights the importance of promoting growth in all types of OECD regions, particularly in underdeveloped ones.

This publication sheds light on the issue of decentralisation in Mexico.

This Urban Policy Review of Korea assesses Korea's approach to sustainable urban development as expressed in its recent urban policy reform and national green growth agenda.

Traditional welfare and employment policies have been unable to tackle the problems of high unemployment and exclusion in OECD countries and recently a wave of new approaches has emerged together with new political notions of welfare-to-work.

This report compares urbanisation trends in OECD countries on the basis of a newly defined OECD methodology which enables cross-country comparison of the socio-econimic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas in OECD countries.

The OECD Territorial Review of the Chicago Tri-State metropolitan area, the first of its kind conducted by the OECD in the United States, assesses the region's capacity to contribute effectively to regional and national economic performance and quality of life.

The OECD territorial review of Smaland-Blekinge presents an overview of recent trends, regional policies and governance arrangements of this region that is made up of four counties in South-East Sweden: Jonkoping, Kronoberg, Kalmar and Blekinge.

Transcontinental Infrastructure Needs to 2030/50 explores the long-term opportunities and challenges facing major gateway and transport hub infrastructures -- ports, airports and major rail corridors - in the coming decades.

This book examines the concept of the compact city and the implication of the current urban context for compact city policies.

Human resources, training, qualifications and skills play an essential part in the development of regional economies.

The review points to the need to redesign regional policy.

This review, which draws on data and comparative perspectives from OECD countries, highlights challenges that Brazil will need to tackle, including those related to fiscal arrangements among the sub-national governments, building administrative capacity at the local level, and fostering cross-sectoral co-ordination in federal programming