Industrial Development and Municipal Reorganization: Conflict, Cooperation, and Regional Effects

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Razin ◽  
A Hazan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Regional Effects

In this paper the nature, outcomes, and regional effects of conflicts over the municipal affiliation of industrial areas and large facilities in urban fringe and rural areas in Israel are examined, based on an analysis of sixty-seven conflicts that took place during the period 1961–93. It is demonstrated that the potential for conflicts has increased because of the growing dispersal of industry into rural space, the increasing reliance of local government on self-income, and unique Israeli circumstances. These conditions have encouraged two contradictory options for local government, both promoted by neoconservative free-market approaches. The first consists of a growing role for local government in economic development efforts, accompanied by intense competition among local authorities and by the establishment of voluntary modes of municipal cooperation in initiating and managing industrial areas. Cooperation is intended to achieve a just distribution of regional wealth and to promote the fiscal soundness of local government. The second option is to remove nodes of economic development from local government to local industrial councils and to free export processing zones, loosely controlled by the central government. These initiatives practically strip local government of its potential industrial base, with the intention of promoting national and regional economic growth. Reforms of the above types tend to originate in the periphery, where the flexibility to change existing structures is greater than in central regions. Despite this pioneering role of the periphery, the specific implications of these reforms for local autonomy and fiscal viability of local government in peripheral regions are, at best, mixed.

Economic Development in Britain: A Vacuum in Central-Local Government Relations

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Young
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Employment Goals

Local authority involvement in economic matters has become widespread since the early 1970s. Recent developments in the pattern of local economic activity have been the increasing use of section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 to fund local programmes, the spread of local authority involvement from the Assisted Areas to the more prosperous regions, and the increasing interest shown by the smaller shire districts, often in rural areas. The portfolio of possible interventions has also changed, bringing a new diversity to the practice of local economic development. Whereas central government has in the past eschewed the temptation to exercise close controls over these activities, the new diversity of local economic initiatives presents it with new dilemmas. It can no longer be assumed that such initiatives will be supportive of central government's spatial or sectoral policies. This vacuum in central-local relations is unlikely to remain, and renewed pressures to grant specific economic development powers to local authorities can be expected. If these claims are accepted, central government will be drawn inexorably into local economic affairs by the need to develop the capacity of local authorities to intervene effectively in pursuit of economic and employment goals.

Incomplete Fiscal Decentralisation: An Impediment for Local Economic Development in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-105
Author(s):  
Audrey Smock Amoah ◽  
Imoro Braimah ◽  
Theresa Yaba Baah-Ennumh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Fiscal Decentralisation ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level

For the past three decades Ghana’s democratic decentralisation policy has sought in vein to establish a local government system capable of pursuing Local Economic Development (LED). One of the major impediments has been the insincere implementation of fiscal decentralisation for the local government to provide the enabling environment for LED. This paper employed primary and secondary data from the Wassa East District Assembly (WEDA) to assess the progress so far in Ghana’s fiscal decentralisation and its effect on LED. The paper highlights the potential benefits of LED and the incapacitation of the District Assembly by the Central government for LED financing. The paper again reveals the effects of the constraints of fiscal decentralisation on LED at the local government level and makes policy recommendations towards effective fiscal decentralisation for improvement in LED.

scholarly journals Possibilities and limitations of local economic development in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Dušan Aničić ◽  
Jasmina Gligorijević ◽  
Miloje Jelić ◽  
Milosav Stojanović
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Government Influence ◽  
High Unemployment Rate ◽  
Development Concept

The practice in developed countries has shown a necessity for local government's stronger inclusion in local economic development issues. The economic system in Serbia has features of high unemployment rate and low living standard among the population, and therefore local government taking a larger part in local economic development issues is seen as a real possibility for reducing these problems. Although most of the economic policy instruments lie within the central government jurisdiction, which largely restricts local government possibilities, there is still an important area for local government influence on economic development. There are numerous obstacles for a successful application of the local economic development concept in Serbia, which causes the municipality and regional potentials to be used much less than the possibilities allow, and it has a negative reflection, especially in rural and undeveloped areas.

scholarly journals Pemetaan Kendala dalam Aplikasi Ekonomi Kreatif di Kota Bengkalis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Tri Handayani ◽  
Supriati Supriati
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Structure Interview ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Semi Structure Interview ◽  
The City

The phenomenon that occurs shows how potential Bengkalis city in terms of geographical aspects as a city that is very close to neighboring countries but from the aspect of creative economic development has not increased. This study aims to map the constraints of the creative economy industry in Bengkalis City and provide recommendations in order to improve and condition the creative economy better. The study was conducted in the city of Bengkalis by conducting a semi-structure interview with 50 respondents in order to explore the constraints faced by creative economic business actors from Administrative, Technical, Operational, and Managerial (ATOM) aspects. The results of the Technical, Operational and Managerial aspects are the majority of constraints felt by creative economy business actors. There must be a breakthrough effort that must be done by the local government, and synergy with the central government and educational institutions. Keywords: creative economic, administrative, technical, operasional, mangerial

scholarly journals ANALISIS POTENSI PAJAK DAERAH DALAM PENINGKATAN PENDAPATAN ASLI DAERAH DI KOTA BITUNG

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Gebriany Pirade Wenur ◽  
Herman Karamoy ◽  
Jessy D. L. Warongan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Revenue ◽  
Local Taxes ◽  
Revenue Sources ◽  
The Future ◽  
Descriptive Approach

Economic development requires government and the community to develop and explore the potentials of the region to supporting the better economy in the future. Local Tax is one of regional revenues that has an important role in supporting the implementation of regional development of Bitung. High earnings of local taxes will increase revenue (PAD) so the local government are expected to explore the revenue sources (PAD) in improving Local Revenue (PAD) as to reduce dependence on the central government. This study is aimed to quantify and determine the potential of local taxes in the realization of the projected increase regional revenue in Bitung City. This research uses qualitative method with descriptive approach. Based on research and survey, Bitung City has unexplored local taxes potential by the local government (DIPENDA) to be explore. In 2016 to 2020 local taxes potential revenue has been projected to rising of 25 percent. Keywords: Potential, Local Taxes, Local Revenue (PAD)

How to reduce local government decision-making competition in China’s new urbanization process

Kybernetes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 671-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Wang ◽  
Hengzhou Xu ◽  
Xiaoyan Li
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
Future Economic Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Urbanization

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of local government decision-making competition new urbanization, further to seek measures to weaken the negative effect of local government decision-making competition. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first puts forward the three paths which make local government decision-making competition: construction of new-style urbanization, economic development and construction of people’s livelihood and take China’s new-style urbanization as an example, the authors analyzed the internal mechanism of decision making of local government competition which caused by above three paths. Second, using the prospect theory, risk aversion theory and Cournot duopoly model, the authors analyzed how to avoid the local government decision-making competition and how to reduce the harm caused by local government decision-making competition. Findings – The central government can curb the appearance of local government competition strategy through regulating and controlling the effectiveness of local government protective-investment policy, improving the degree of market competition and punishment coefficient of government decision-making failure and further, the authors can reduce the detriment of decision-making competition between local governments through adjusting the revenue function of local government in the process of new-style urbanization. Originality/value – New-style urbanization is the main driving force of China’s future economic development, however, in the process of new-style urbanization, because of the “principle-agent” relationship between central government and local government, officials achievements appraisal mechanism and promotion game, they all cause competition between local government decision making, and this will weaken the positive effect of urbanization. Although, there are many researches on horizontal and intergovernmental competition, most researches devoted to how to avoid it from the angle of institutional economics, and the suggestions put forward by these researches are hardly applied. Anyone interested in how to avoid local government decision-making competition and reduce the negative influences of it from the angle of unitary government state’s reality will find this paper valuable.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Closure of Primary Schools on the Economic Development of Rural Areas in Małopolska Voivodeship

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Semczuk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
School Network ◽  
The Impact

In the last two decades, the map of the primary school network in Poland has undergone a significant transformation, especially in rural areas that are suffering depopulation. These changes generally involve the closing of small rural schools and this leads to numerous conflicts between residents and local government. However, it is rarely pointed out that closing a school can be a fatal blow to the local community, not only due to the reduction in the social activity of residents but also the loss of jobs which contributes to the economic decline of a village. However, few studies can confirm this thesis. Therefore, this article aims to present the spatial diversity of the reorganisation process of the primary school network in rural areas of Małopolska Voivodeship and attempts to determine the impact of school closures on the economic development of those villages. To achieve this, the author compared the average value of the entrepreneurship indicator for 2018 with changes in the number of businesses for 2009–2018 for individual villages. The calculated values were compiled for those communities where the primary school was closed and for those villages in which the residents decided to take over a school from the local government with their own organisation or association. For comparison of selected indicators, differences in the average values for the two types of localities were presented using a one-way ANOVA variance analysis. The research showed much higher economic activity in places where the school was taken over compared to where the school was closed. In addition, the places where the school was taken over showed a stronger rate of growth for the number of businesses registered in the REGON system.

Effect of the development of the edible fungus industry on the circular economy of the beautiful new countryside based on the var3D regional model

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Hao Fang ◽  
Jiafeng Xu ◽  
Danli Dai ◽  
Yongpeng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
International Market ◽  
Edible Fungi ◽  
Source Power ◽  
Edible Fungus ◽  
New Countryside ◽  
Rural Construction

As China’s accession to the World Trade Organization takes longer and longer, it has gained a place in the international market. At present, in the international market, China ranks first in the trading volume of agricultural and sideline products, especially in the development of foreign trade in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. The development momentum of the edible fungus industry continues to increase in China, becoming a leader in the emerging agricultural industry. Based on the influence of the edible fungus industry in rural areas, according to the survey and record of data valuation, the specific index data content from 2005 to 2019 was taken as an example, and a three-tier research system was proposed using var3D model. Respectively, it is the relationship between the three types of rural basic indicators, economic indicators, and industrial development indicators, verifying the role of the edible fungus industry in driving the development of beautiful new rural construction and enhancing economic development. Results show that the targeted distribution of edible fungi across the country and the construction of beautiful villages have a high degree of direct correlation, and its steep performance trend is obvious. In the analysis of the equilibrium degree of the edible fungi industry driving the local rural economic development, the edible fungi continues to strengthen the advantages of local industries have used its industrial power to further improve the intensity and integrity of local rural construction and promote the development of beautiful new rural areas. The development of the edible fungus industry has also led to the enthusiasm and source power of the construction of beautiful new villages. The development of beautiful new villages will help to enhance the gain effect of the edible fungus industry and form a new model of the beautiful new rural circular economy.

scholarly journals Change of Rural Development Policy in South Korea after Korean War

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-149
Author(s):  
Lee In-hee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Korean Government ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Development Plans

The industrial development of South Korea is an exceptional success story. However, there were several side effects of the strong economic growth, such as rapidly increasing city populations and severe socio-economic inequality. The population in the area of the capital currently amounts to half of the national population of South Korea. The Korean government has implemented various regional development policies for a more balanced national development. This paper investigates the series of Five-Year Economic Development Plans from 1962-1997 and the Saemaul Undong movement, who contributed to the record of economic development of South Korea, and discusses the rural development policies recently promoted by the South Korean government to address problems such as the progressive decrease and stagnation of agricultural productivity, the depopulation and aging trends in rural areas, the deterioration of farm household income structure, and import expansion and unstable grain supply by free trade agreement.   Abstract. Perkembangan industri Korea Selatan adalah kisah sukses yang luar biasa. Namun, ada beberapa efek samping dari pertumbuhan ekonomi yang kuat, seperti populasi kota yang meningkat pesat dan ketimpangan sosial ekonomi yang parah. Penduduk di wilayah ibu kota saat ini berjumlah setengah dari penduduk nasional Korea Selatan. Pemerintah Korea telah menerapkan berbagai kebijakan pembangunan daerah untuk pembangunan nasional yang lebih seimbang. Makalah ini menyelidiki serangkaian Rencana Pembangunan Ekonomi Lima Tahun dari 1962-1997 dan gerakan Saemaul Undong, yang berkontribusi pada rekor pembangunan ekonomi Korea Selatan, dan membahas kebijakan pembangunan perdesaan yang baru-baru ini dipromosikan oleh pemerintah Korea Selatan untuk mengatasi masalah-masalah seperti sebagai penurunan progresif dan stagnasi produktivitas pertanian, depopulasi dan tren penuaan di daerah perdesaan, kerusakan struktur pendapatan rumah tangga pertanian, dan ekspansi impor dan pasokan biji-bijian yang tidak stabil oleh perjanjian perdagangan bebas.   Keywords. Saemaul Undong, perencanaan penggunaan lahan, pembangunan perdesaan, pembangunan ekonomi, perubahan populasi.

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