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Local development strategies represent an important response to the challenges of globalisation, while providing a mechanism for seizing the new opportunities that globalisation offers. Nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, this book evaluates progress made and identifies what needs to be done to speed up the drive towards prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the success of local development strategies depends on the capacity of the government and its partners to accelerate change within the policy and governance aspects of economic and social development.Table of Content :Executive Summary Chapter 1. Local Innovations for Growth in Central and Eastern Europe: Policy and Goveranance Issues by Sylvain Giguère Chapter 2. Local Governance for Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and Irish Conditions and its Lessons for Poland by David J. A. Douglas Chapter 3. Governance and Local Economic Development: In Search of an Apporpriate Governance Structure for Croatia by Ivana Rasic Bakaric, Marijana Sumpor and Jelena Sisinacki Chapter 4. Building a Governance Framework that Enables the Establishment of Partnerships in Slovenia: Comparison with Ireland and Finland by Zdenka Kovac Chapter 5. Strengthening Non-Governmental Organisations fo More Effective Local Governance and Partnership in Serbia by Vlandan Jeremic and Zeljko Sevic Chapter 6. Enforcing the Participation of Civil Society in Local Decision Making: The Lessons from the South-East Europe Experience by Haralambos Kondonis Chapter 7. Participatory Democracy: From Ideals to Realities - the Lessons from Three Localities in Croatia by Irena Dokic, nenad Starc and Paul Stubbs Chatper 8. Mobilising the Population for Maximum Impact: UNDP's Experience in Albania by Kalyan Pandey Chapter 9. Institutions, Governance, and the Development of Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe by David Smallbone Chapter 10. The Existence of Public-Private Partnerships in Financing Entrepreneurship in Eastern Germany and Poland by Holger Kuhle Chapter 11. Community Development Banking to Foster Entrepreneurship: A Comparison between Experiments in Hungary and Poland by Zeljko Sevic Chapter 12. Tackling the Problem of Inadequate Financing for Local Development: The Case of Croatia by Dubravka Jurlina Alibegovic Chatper 13. Fostering Local Development in Bulgaria: The Need of Fiscal Decentralisation by Desislava Stoilova Chapter 14. Fiscal Autonomy and the Incentives to Stimulate Business Growth and Efficient Public Goods Provision: the Case of Belarus by Irina Kolesnikova About the Authors - from Amzon