scholarly journals Regional socio-economic disparities in the Kashmir Valley (India) – a geographical approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahnaz Mohiuddin ◽  
Haseena Hashia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
National Development ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Kashmir Valley ◽  
Populated Area ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Physical Features

Abstract.The problem of regional disparities in the levels of social and economic development is a universal phenomenon. Both developed and developing countries have witnessed this problem in the path of their socio-economic advancement. India is a large federal nation and it is well known that there are widespread disparities in the levels of socio-economic development among the different regions of the Indian nation. Balanced regional development has always been an essential component of India’s national development strategy in order to ensure the unity and integrity of the nation. Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost state of India, has been divided into three geo-physical regions, viz. Jammu, the Valley of Kashmir and the Ladakh. The Kashmir Valley is the most thickly populated area of the state; the overriding characteristics of the economy of the Kashmir Valley is its extreme backwardness which is largely the result of the peculiar physical features of the Valley and traditional society. The indicators to be used in the present study have been assigned statistical weights derived through the factor analysis method. The changes in the index values have been examined to trace the direction of development. Finally, the sectoral indices have been pooled together to derive a comprehensive composite index of development. This gives an aggregate picture of the changes in the levels of development of all the tehsils over two time periods, i.e. 1981 and 2001.

European experience of forming strategic directions of socio-economic development of the country

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Vasyl Papp ◽  
Nelya Boshota
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Main Task ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Socio Economic Development

The main task that determines the effective functioning of the country is the formation of a strategy for its socio-economic development based on a long-term innovation strategy. An innovative development strategy of the country is defined as a fundamental, basic element of the overall strategy of socio-economic development. The purpose of the article is to develop the conceptual foundations for shaping the country's socio-economic development strategy in modern conditions, adjusting the priority directions of the strategy and the peculiarities in using the means of achieving the goals, taking into account European experience. The article examines the European practice of developing and implementing the strategy of socio-economic development of the country as the most important instrument of the state's influence on social and economic development. Recommendations on the use of advanced strategic planning tools are developed. It is proved that without the scientific and methodological support of the plan of socio-economic development of the country it is impossible to count on the successful solution of important tasks and the democratization of public relations. The concept of strategy formation is designed to take into account the interests of economic entities and territory and to cover not only the traditionally used sectoral aspect of development, but also the territorial, which includes the creation and development of clusters and special economic zones. European experience shows that transition of a country to an innovative socially oriented type of development requires an increase in the efficiency of the state strategic planning process, the achievement of which is possible only with the co-ordinated activity of state authorities, business structures, science and society. It should be emphasized that in the prevailing conditions there is a need to form a single integrated system of social and economic development planning that optimally combines both the use of strategic planning and the program-target method for solving urgent problems.

scholarly journals Rural Accessibility, Rural Development, and Natural Disasters in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Ahmed ◽  
Elizabeth Eklund
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
National Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Social And Economic Development

Rural accessibility means more than just reliable roads and cost-effective transportation networks. Rural accessibility is critical for achieving social and economic development in low-income developing countries such as Bangladesh where both rural and urban development are constrained by significant infrastructural deficiencies. It is also an important factor that determines the effects of natural disasters on these resource-constrained societies, since both disaster responses and sustainable development are compromised by poor rural accessibility. Using two contrasting case studies from Bangladesh, this article reveals the significance of improved rural accessibility on rural development and the effects of natural disasters on rural areas. The findings of this article suggest that the improvement of rural accessibility should be a top national development priority, since it increases the opportunities for sustainable social and economic development and reduces the adverse effects of natural disasters on the rural areas in developing countries such as Bangladesh.

scholarly journals From “Blood Transfusion” to “Harmonious Development”: The Political Economy of Fiscal Allocations to China's Ethnic Regions

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
National Development ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Ethnic Tensions

For six decades, China's central authorities have promoted development in ethnic regions through special fiscal allocations with the idea that economic development is the key to national integration and inter-ethnic harmony. Yet, inter-ethnic tensions and violence persist in China. Focusing on historical changes to fiscal allocations as the principal policy instrument used by Beijing to promote development in ethnic areas, this analysis finds these changes mirror broad shifts in the country's national development strategy. As the study argues, this pattern reflects an approach to development policy in ethnic regions whereby policies serve central objectives consistent with a policy process for determining the fiscal allocations to ethnic regions that has been both centrally concentrated and non-participatory. With evidence that this “non-engaging” approach may be exacerbating ethnic tensions, Beijing has made efforts to introduce more “inclusive” approaches to determining policies for ethnic regions; however, whether these approaches will be institutionalized remains unclear.

scholarly journals Tourism policy of the Republic of Poland level of the territorial self-government

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (43) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
I. Sukhovych
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Tourism Policy ◽  
The Republic

The article deals with the place and role of the territorial self-government sector in the process of tourism development, the influence of tourism on the social and economic development of a region as well as the role of strategic regional planning in the sphere of tourism development. The article also analyzes the development of tourism on the level of gmina self-government which is the lowest and the most important level of self-government in Poland, the tasks of gminas in the tourism sphere as well as the role of local authorities in the process of tourism promotion. The work highlights an institutional system of tourism development support in Poland on regional level, the role of local self-government bodies in financing infrastructure that is need for tourism development, the role of regional tourist agencies in promoting and creating tourist attractions in a region, as well as the tourism promotion system at the gmina self-government territorial level. Key words: Poland, tourism, regional policy, territorial self-government, gmina, development strategy, tourism promotion, tourist agency, tourism policy, social and economic development, dimensional policy.

scholarly journals Informal Employment Impact on Social and Economic Development of Russian Federation Entities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
E. I. Dubravskaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
City Planning ◽  
National Development ◽  
Informal Employment ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social And Economic Development

To make managerial decisions on labour market regulation on the regional level it is necessary to have an objective statistic estimation of interconnection between informal employment and indicators of social and economic development. The article describes preconditions of forming a complex system of indicators on the basis of documents of strategic planning and analysis of works by Russian and overseas researchers dealing with issues of informal employment. Informal employment is an independent field of research that attracts scientists from different spheres and disciplines: from economics and anthropology to gender research, politology, sociology and city planning. Due to the fact that sizes and composition of informal employment, causes of its arising and consequences, lines of impact and interconnection with other figures are different, the author took analysis of documents of strategic planning and goals of national development of the Russian Federation up to 2024 as a starting point for shaping the structure of the system of indicators. In the research indicators of social and economic development were grouped by blocks corresponding to lines in national projects and supplemented by the block of indicators characterizing the macro-economic situation. This categorization based on priorities of national development fosters conclusion drawing with due regard to human capital, comfortable environment for life and economic growth.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Development and Infrastructure Cost Performance in China: Comparing Transport and Energy Sectors

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Wiebke Rabe ◽  
Genia Kostka ◽  
Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
National Development ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
Infrastructure Provision ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
Infrastructure Performance

Socio-economic development is often linked to efficient infrastructure provision. In China, the government has rolled out ambitious infrastructure projects as part of its national development strategy. There is much to praise about China’s infrastructure provision, such as its remarkable scale and speed of infrastructure delivery. However, based on studying 153 infrastructure cases between 1983 and 2018 and two in-depth case studies, we find that China’s infrastructure performance is not as positive as often assumed. We show that infrastructure projects continuously arrive significantly over budget. We argue that this cost performance depends – similar to Western countries – on inaccurately anticipating technical hindrances and geographical challenges. In addition, however, we identify another important and so far less discussed project performance determinant specifically relevant to the Chinese context: population resettlements and land acquisition.

scholarly journals The Development of Agglomerations is a Key Direction of the Social and Economic Development Strategy of the Republic of Tatarstan

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Irina Yusupova ◽  
◽  
Lyudmila Golitsyna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Large City ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Rational Form ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Republic

The current economic situation makes the issue of the urban agglomerations appearance and development crucial. Global experience shows that urban agglomeration is a rational form of territorial use. Through this process the creation of a unified social, economic and investment space takes place. The goal of agglomeration in the 21st century is to establish the basis for the development of large cities as the best form of people settlement. The development of a locality within an urban agglomeration should give it significant advantages. In most cases, the agglomeration process can produce a significant social and economic effect, as well as provide an opportunity to improve the quality and standard of living of the population. In world practice, agglomeration processes have an extensive system of support from the state, and currently there are trends towards the consolidation of individual agglomerations into superagglomerations or megacities. A distinctive feature of agglomeration is the presence of economic interaction between its system-forming elements, characterized by their interconnectedness and features, such as the presence of a large city, which is the center of agglomeration (center of attraction), intensive travel within the agglomeration, as well as industrial and technological cooperation within the agglomeration. In the Republic of Tatarstan the importance of agglomeration development is well understood: the key direction of the implementation of the Strategy of social and economic development of the Republic of Tatarstan up to 2030, approved in 2015, is the development of agglomerations (Kazan, Kama and Almetyevsk). The lack of unified approaches to the management of agglomeration processes is a limiting factor in the integrated development of territories, which leads to an imbalance in plans for housing construction, job supply and provision of transport and social infrastructure facilities. The purpose of this article is to identify these approaches.

scholarly journals Formation of the Spatial Development Strategy for an Agro-Industrial Region: Modernization of Approaches

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kazakov ◽  
Inna Mitrofanova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Range Of Functions ◽  
Industrial Regions

The need to update and develop new provisions of the policy of regional social and economic development as a centre-peripheral system is determined by the impossibility to ensure balanced social and economic development and smooth spatial development of central and peripheral territories only within the framework of the long-term strategy and programmes of social and economic development. The factor of economic space, its qualitative characteristics, as well as life-affirming properties in the context of the transition to the post-industrial paradigm of economic dynamics began to perform a much larger range of functions than just a topographic placement of economic agents within the framework of the concept of physical and metric use of elements of space. This circumstance can no longer be ignored in the framework of regulating interterritorial proportions and developing adequate approaches ensuring the equal spatial and economic development of the relevant centre-peripheral systems. The inclusion of the center-periphery conditions into the processes of forming and implementing the regional social and economic policy makes it necessary to look at the problems and order of regional strategic targeting from another point of view. This process, i.e. the process of strategy development, as well as the resulting strategic document of regional perspective development, is quintessential of the general philosophy and ideological concept of development of the region taking into account its spatial position, specialization of economy and specificity of the center-peripheral architecture within the region. The article justifies the relevance of developing new approaches to the formation of a strategy of regional spatial development for the territories of the central-peripheral type or agricultural and industrial regions. It details the principles of strategy development, the recommended diagnostic procedures used in the development of the strategy document, as well as the technological routing of the strategy development process and its key components. The presented scientific results have practical value within the implementation of the policy of spatial development of agricultural and industrial regions.

scholarly journals Environmental Management and Development Strategy of Cross-border River Water Resources

2021 ◽  
Vol 259 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
River Water ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
National Development ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
International Rivers ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Development And Utilization ◽  
International River

International Rivers pass through more than two countries, which makes it difficult to manage international rivers. Nowadays, the integration of world economic development determines the increasingly close cooperation between countries. The international river has become a hot area of economic development. How to rationally develop and utilize the international river and make it healthy and sustainable development is an important problem facing all countries. China is rich in cross-border river water resources. With the increasingly obvious economic status of cross-border river water resources, how to use cross-border river is an urgent problem. Combined with the distribution characteristics of cross-border rivers in China, this paper discusses the strategic significance of cross-border river development and utilization for national development, combs the current situation of cross-border river development and utilization, and puts forward corresponding measures for cross-border river development strategy, which has reference value for solving the problems caused by cross-border river development.

scholarly journals Dual Priority Agenda: China's Model for Modernizing Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenguo Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Practice

Purpose —Forty years ago, China made a critical decision to reform and open up, achieving sustained economic growth. Simultaneously, China continued to center efforts on achieving its education modernization goals. It succeeded in the unconventional development of education, consolidating a population of nearly 1.4 billion into a powerful human-resource-centered nation and creating favorable interactive relationships with social and economic development. This paper aims to explore how these achievements were gained and how these relationships were made. Design/Approach/Methods —This paper is conceptual in nature. Findings —Based on the policy documents and development practice, this paper proposes a model of Dual Priority Agenda (DPA), whereby the government prioritized education development, and this development focused predominantly on promoting national development. Originality/Value —By elaborating the background, characteristics, rationales, and mechanisms of the DPA, this paper contributes to a new conceptualization of reciprocal relationship between the state and educational modernization.

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