The technology park Berlin-Adlershof as an example of spatial proximity in regional economicpolicy
Berlin ; Economic geography ; Germany ; Region ; Regional economy ; Saarland ; Technology
This paper discusses to what extent spatial economicpolicy has contributed to the development of an interlinked cluster. The article deals with technology parks, spatial proximity, spatial economicpolicy in Berlin-Adlershof and network development
Evaluation of local economic development : a challenge for policy research
Economicpolicy ; Job creation ; Local development ; Local economy ; Regional policy
This paper suggests the benefits of placing evaluation in a broader context of performance measures which reflects more fully the objectives of the policy and allows greater insights into comparative effectiveness and thus influences
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
Policy-making without facts : a note on the assessment of structural adjustment policies in Nigeria 1975-1990
Economicpolicy ; 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 economicpolicy, which influenced economic conditions and the pattern of housing finance and housing policy.
An economicpolicy hypothesis of metropolitan growth cycles : a reflection on the recent rejuvenation of Tokyo
A new hypothesis for the cyclical movements of urban growth based on the analysis of Tokyo's recent rejuvenation and Japanese government's economicpolicies of the 1980's. - (SGA)
Regional and local economicpolicies and technology.
A number of case studies on regional and local economicpolicies and technology from the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands original presented at a seminar on applied economic geography in Aachen (1988). Recent theoretical view points
on technology and the geographic environment, regional economic strategies and the investigation of local initiatives form the three perspectives in this book. - (AGD)
This article analyses the symmetric effects of national-based active labour market policies in Italy. The results suggest that while in the South employment is mainly driven by social and economic context variables, in the North the employment
dynamics are significantly explained by policy interventions. Two policy implications are suggested. First, the success of active ones depends on the regional labour market conditions. Second, policy-makers should adjust labour policy strategy to regional
A behaviour-oriented concept for the selection of assistance areas in regional structural policy is presented. This concept, assuming as it does a clear orientation of regional structural policy towards the goal of equalisation, gives central
prominence in the analysis to the reactions of individuals/households to regional economic problems. - (L'A.).
Bezinning op regionaal beleid Reflections on regional policy
A critical comment upon the Governmental report concerning the regional economicpolicy for the period 1977-1980. Open to question is the efficiency of the report, because there is insufficient insight in the character of the spatial-economic
processes. A confrontation of economic with spatial policy is missing. (AGD).
Policies and prospects of urban redevelopment in Poland
City;Town ; Development ; Economic crisis ; Poland ; Prospective study ; Urban migration ; Urban policy ; Urban system ; Urbanization
The mutual relations between the overall economic development and urbanization processes are strong obvious. In the Polish case the three key terms describe these relations at the turn of the centuries : lagging urbanization, economic crisis
and political/economic reforms. The paper is constructed around these three notions.