Rethinking Partnership in Development Policies: Lessons from a European Policy Experiment
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Europe in development policies for rural and less developed areas. This shift moves away from subsidies and sectoral interventions towards supply-side, area-specific actions–both public investments and institution building–aimed at improving framework conditions and increasing indirectly the productivity of private investments in these areas.1 These actions can be pooled together under the name of Territorial Competitiveness Policies (TCPs) since their end result is to increase permanently the competitiveness of less developed areas.2
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