Urban policy : the victory of form over substance ?
Community ; Competition ; Local policy ; Partnership ; Social policy ; United Kingdom ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban policy
Looking at urban regeneration or inner-city policy from the point of view of a social policy analyst, one is struck by how much of the literature on the subject originates with geographers and how much this seems to have coloured the debate. It has
given added emphasis to form and structure at the expense of social policies for poverty, education, health, dependency and unemployment in the cities.
[b1] Dep. of Social Policy and Social Science, Univ., Egham, Royaume-Uni
Food policy conflicts in food-deficit developing countries
Bangladesh ; Conflict ; Food ; Food policy ; Food production ; Government intervention ; Malnutrition ; Third World
The paper concentrates on answering these food policy questions for food-deficit developing countries, taking detailed examples from Bangladesh but pointing out similarities and differences elsewhere in the third world. Conflicts are generally seen
to be between policies wich benefit producers and policies directed at consumers.
Policy-making without facts : a note on the assessment of structural adjustment policies in Nigeria 1975-1990
Economic policy ; Nigeria ; Planning
Nigeria is facing an economic collapse but there are few facts available for the planners. There are uncertainties about the economy's current position and its response to past policies. The plea of W. Stolper's book, « Planning without facts
The housing market, housing finance and housing policy in West Germany : prospects for the 1990s in Housing finance and policy.
The interaction of private decisions and government interventions is evaluated against the background of a liberal economic policy, which influenced economic conditions and the pattern of housing finance and housing policy.
Networking the urban policy arena. Local governance and the regionalisation of territorial policy-making in Northrhine-Westphalia
Germany ; Local policy ; Network ; North Rhine Westfalia ; Regional development ; Regionalization ; Urban network ; Urban policy
The contribution deals with the following subjects : 1)Policy innovation as context management : 1) Regionalisation in Northrhine-Westphalia. 2) Local responses to regionalisation : Duisburg and its region. 3) Networking the urban policy arena : new
Report on Ukrainian Regional Policy. The main trends of regional policy formation in conditions of realization Ukrainian Euro-integration strategy
Decentralization ; European Union ; European integration ; Geopolitical strategy ; Partnership ; Regional development ; Regional policy ; Ukraine
This paper presents shortly the common regional policy of EU, which now is based on theory of “new regionalism” and on three principles: the subsidiary, the decentralization and the partnership. The regulation of EU regional policy provides for а
wide variety of form and methods for the organizational and economic stimulation of region development. The author aim is presented the Ukrainian policy and strategy to integration into EU. - (BJ)
Policy transfer : consultants and the geographies of governance
Decision making process ; Diffusion ; Expertise ; Governance ; Network ; Policy ; Political geography ; Transnationalism
The emergence of transnational geographies of governance presents a challenge to geographers. Geographical work on policy transfer has much to offer conceptions of emerging geographies of governance, when linked to the production of governance
structures, such as global policy networks. The paper argues that increased use of ethnographic methods in policy transfer studies enables a focus on how global policy networks are produced through the actors driving the transfers. This is illustrated through
The immigration policy during nineties. Harmonization with the EU members in the main aim. Some important changes brought new law since 1.1.2000. Basic information about integration programme for immigrants in the Czech Republic is given. - (MS)
Common policy ; Europe ; European Union ; Regional development ; Regional policy
The present contribution examines the evolution and the motivations behind the EC regional policy, in order to understand the ways in which it can assume an increasing role in the future. - (L'A.).
Domestic policies, external constraints and economic development in Nigeria since 1950
The post-1950 rural to urban migration led to stagnation in food output. With the decline in oil revenue, and the policy of industrial development of import substitute goods the neglect of agriculture cannot continue and policy reform is essential