tthe study area included parts of the villages in behabad, of bafq county, yazd province, and pool research was conducted in 2008 and 2009. research findings show that rural workers and islamic councils have relatively been successful in development of rural entrepreneurship, and local people believe that entrepreneurs, officials, experts and local commentators, islamic council and rural worker...

The “rules of the game” embodied in municipal documents constrain as well as provide opportunities for local government officials to capture individual benefits related to policy action. We test the mediating effect form of government has on the probability of joint venture formation for economic development purposes. Data is generated from a survey of local officials in 2004 and 2007. We find ...

This paper describes and elaborates a quasi-market framework to integrate the diverse perspectives on local government development competition found in the economic development literatures. Within this framework local governments seek to obtain positive externalities associated with economic growth through provision of services and inducements to private firms in exchange for commitments of emp...

Growth in Gross domestic product or per capita income is a necessary element of economic development but not sufficient one. This separates growth from development. These days the Human index also taken as most important measure for However with failure trickle-down theory, economists started looking other dimensions related to developmental economics. Local shifts focus both terms actors and a...

Mexico is one of the few OECD countries where local loop unbundling has not been regulated. Local loop unbundling (LLU) was one policy promoted during the 1990’s by several administrations in order to foster competition in the local loop. However, after observing the consequences of local loop unbundling in several countries, it is still not clear whether this policy could be beneficial or not....

Local economic development (LED) should be everybody’s business, including local residents, local business people and government. LED is globally, but especially in developing countries, seen as the solution to improved quality of life, unemployment, poverty and inequality. LED is a relatively new field of research and policy formulation, planning processes and implementation plans are still ev...