The Problem of Drinking Water in Small Agglomerations and its Implications for Regional Development in Siliana, Tunisia

Africa ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-307
Author(s):  
Mohsen Trabelsi
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Urban Development Policy

Opening ParagraphUrban planning cannot be conceived in isolation: rural development is also essential for solving urban problems (Trabelsi 1978). Nor can rural development be achieved without an accompanying urban development policy and both must be integrated into a framework of regional development planning, itself part of the national social development plan (Trabelsi 1979). The modern conception is of a region evolving in an organised space around at least a second order town as a pole of development.

scholarly journals Urban Area Entities in Affecting Regional Development: A Case Study for Mebidangro

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Muhammad Taufiq ◽  
Benedictus Kombaitan
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Global City ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Current Area ◽  
Global World ◽  
Area Development

How is an urban area influencing regional development? Urban area development policy with the primary purpose of driving its surrounding area development found a shift in meaning under the latest development. It initiates a complex relation between cities as network dots, which is not globally separable. This study aims to provide a theoretical analysis regarding its considerations and implications in practice through a study case of the Mebidangro urban area (Medan City-Binjai City-Deli Serdang District-Karo District) in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. By using a content analysis method, the study evaluates the regional development policy. The result shows that Mebidangro urban area plays a role in influencing regional development through four entities: i.e., reducing income disparity, the centrality of productions and services, urbanization under the mobility context of labor and knowledge, and regional and international cooperation. The study also found that there is a tendency in which nowadays cities are not seen as a hierarchy. However, cooperation functions and its limits are global (world cities networks), not administrative or region. The fact supports an argument that the current area planning context is not only creating its surrounding area development but also as a part of the global city network. Mebidangro is one of the cases that illustrated this concept of operationalization practice. Through existing policy, this urban area was in such a way created to be able to become global city networks as a shifting of regional development planning paradigm from increasing surrounding area development to a region globally compete.

scholarly journals Success or Waste of Taxpayer Money? Impact Assessment of Rural Development Programs in Hungary

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2158
Author(s):  
Zoltán Bakucs ◽  
Imre Fertő ◽  
Zsófia Benedek
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life ◽  
Development Support ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
The Impact

The effectiveness of support directed to less developed regions is a timely question more than halfway through the 2014–2020 programming period. We present an analysis of the impact of rural development support on the well-being of Hungarian LAU1 regions between 2008 and 2013. The aim was to measure the overall impact of all of the Rural Development Funds, covering all measures within the program. Two indices of local well-being were used: the multi-dimensional, local-variables-based Regional Development Index that measures the overall level of regional development and a simple, migration-based index as a proxy for perceived quality of life. Generalized propensity score matching, and difference-in-differences estimation techniques were employed to evaluate the impact of subsidies. Irrespective of how the amount of support was calculated, the measure of local well-being, or the methodology employed, the impact was not significant, and was sometimes even negative. This casts doubt on the effectiveness of Rural Development Policy in Hungary.

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