Changing administrative regions in Jordan : regional development strategy or distraction?
Disparités régionales ; Découpage administratif ; Développement régional ; Jordanie ; Organisation de l'espace ; Réseau urbain ; Stratégie de développement ; Structure spatiale
Administrative division ; Development strategy ; Jordan ; Regional development ; Regional disparities ; Spatial organization ; Spatial structure ; Urban network
This study deals with municipal strategies in the Netherlands. It tries to identify municipal strategies, tries to establish whether certain comibnations of strategies are bound to certain types of municipalities and tries to establish the role
Growth-pole strategies in regional economic planning : a retrospective view. Part 2. Implementation and outcome
Economic activity ; Economic impact ; Economicstrategy ; Growth pole ; High-tech industry ; Location ; Regional economy ; Town ; United Kingdom ; Urban system
Activité économique ; Economie régionale ; Impact économique ; Industrie de pointe ; Localisation ; Planification régionale ; Pôle de croissance ; Royaume-Uni ; Stratégie économique ; Système urbain ; Ville
l'échec, l'abandon et la non-adoption de la stratégie, ainsi que les raisons qui ont entraîné ces résultats. Il convient de renforcer les aspects conceptuels encore trop déficients d'une telle stratégie.
Economic history ; Economic integration ; Economic policy ; Economicstrategy ; Economic system ; Economy ; Finance ; International economy ; Political power ; Portugal
Economie ; Economie internationale ; Finance ; Histoire économique ; Intégration économique ; Politique économique ; Portugal ; Pouvoir politique ; Stratégie économique ; Système économique
Analyse de l'oeuvre financière de Salazar comme partie intégrante d'une stratégie politique personnelle pour consolider son pouvoir et d'un encadrement du Portugal dans le système économique international de l'entre-deux-guerres. - (DBF)
EC mergers regulation and regional economic cohesion
Competition ; Economic efficiency ; Economic policy ; Enterprise ; Europe ; European Union ; External control ; Firm strategy ; Management ; Regional economy ; Regulation
Concurrence ; Contrôle externe ; Economie régionale ; Efficacité économique ; Entreprise ; Europe ; Gestion ; Politique économique ; Réglementation ; Stratégie d'entreprise ; Union Européenne
EC mergers policy has no clear mechanism by which the regional economic consequences of takeovers can be assessed or taken into account during merger investigations. So regional economic imbalance may be exacerbated. Proposals are put forward
for the explicit inclusion of an economic cohesion clause into EC mergers regulation.
A juncture for promoting east-west economic prosperity in China - Suggestions on economic development in contiguous area of Jin-Shan-Mong
China ; Economicstrategy ; Energy resources ; Land use ; Regional development ; Resource management ; Shaanxi ; Shanxi ; Water resources
Chine ; Développement régional ; Gestion des ressources ; Neimenggu ; Ressource en eau ; Ressource énergétique ; Shaanxi ; Shanxi ; Stratégie économique ; Utilisation du sol
The article highlights that both location and economic development of the area (Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia) is of special significance in position and function. Suggestions covering five aspects are thus raised on economic development
Culture/economy and spaces of economic practice : positioning households in post-communism
Behaviour ; Economic restructuring ; Economicstrategy ; Food production ; Household behaviour ; Slovak Republic ; Social network
Comportement ; Comportement des ménages ; Production alimentaire ; Restructuration économique ; Réseau de sociabilité ; Slovaquie ; Stratégie économique
Through an exploration of the spaces of household economic practice concerned with food production on family plots of land and with inter-household networks of reciprocity, the paper argues that such activities can be better situated within
the context of the articulation between deep-seated and long-standing economic practices imbued with cultural significance. It explores the inter-section of these cultural and economic practices through the lens of non-market production of surplus product
Economic development and environmental management in Malaysia
Development ; Development strategy ; Economic development ; Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Environmental management ; Malaysia
Dégradation de l'environnement ; Développement ; Développement économique ; Environnement ; Gestion de l'environnement ; Malaisie ; Stratégie de développement
Through a series of five years plans, the economy has greatly expanded. The A. highlights the consequences of these economic changes to the Malaysian environment, summarises measures taken by government to reduce consequential environmental problems
Development strategy ; Economic dependency ; Economic integration ; Economic policy ; Foreign investment ; Globalization ; Identity ; Liberalisation ; South Africa
Afrique du Sud ; Dépendance économique ; Identité ; Intégration économique ; Investissement étranger ; Libéralisation ; Mondialisation ; Politique économique ; Stratégie de développement
The A. argues that South Africa's form of globalisation is paradoxical. Occurring through political and economic liberalisation, globalisation of South Africa is an old story of insertion for dependence on foreign capital.
Productive and spatial strategies in the Montreal tobacco industry, 1850-1918
Branche industrielle ; Canada ; Géographie historique ; Industrialisation ; Manufacture de tabac ; Montréal ; Organisation du travail ; Organisation industrielle ; Production ; Québec ; Siècle 19 ; Stratégie d'entreprise ; Stratégie territoriale
Canada ; Firm strategy ; Historical geography ; Industrial branch ; Industrial organization ; Industrialization ; Montréal ; Nineteenth Century ; Production ; Quebec ; Territorial strategy ; Work organization
This paper investigates the range of strategies open to firms and industries. They are theorized through the concept of production formats, which states that studies of industrial organization and economic change need to be built upon the social
The Australian wool crisis: farm adjustment pressures and strategies. A case study of the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales
Australia ; Deregulation ; Economicstrategy ; Farm ; Livestock farming ; New South Wales ; Sheep
Australie ; Déréglementation ; Elevage ; Exploitation agricole ; Laine ; New South Wales ; Ovin ; Stratégie économique
The primary management strategies adopted by the wool producers are identified. Three farm adjustment strategies are noted: extensification, diversification and expansion. Choice of farm strategy is dependent on the characteristics of both nthe
Birmingham ; Economic impact ; Economic policy ; Economicstrategy ; Employment ; England ; Local development ; Manchester ; Multiplicator ; Project ; Sheffield ; United Kingdom ; Urban policy
Birmingham ; Développement local ; Emploi ; England ; Impact économique ; Manchester ; Multiplicateur ; Politique urbaine ; Politique économique ; Projet ; Royaume-Uni ; Sheffield ; Stratégie économique
concerning the validity of pro-growth, local economic development policies; the rationales behind the adoption of such policies; the financing and implementation of pro-growth strategies; economic impacts; and the distributional consequences of pro-growth
The paper provides a review of the local economic development responses of three local authorities (Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester) to economic restructuring and the intensification of inter-city competition. The paper highlights the debate