Small and medium sized towns in their functional territorial context

Small and medium sized towns in their functional territorial context

Small and medium sized towns in their functional territorial context

Small and medium sized towns in their functional territorial context Applied Research 2013 / 1 / 23 Draft Final Report

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Deindustrialization and Urban Shrinkage in Romania. What Lessons for the Spatial Policy?

Abstract After remodeling the economies of the Western world all along the 1980s, deindustrialization abruptly hit the former socialist countries in the early 1990s. Deindustrialization with destructuring meant the disintegration of the economic structure and industrial cities, and regions entered a downsizing spiral of population loss after the breakdown of traditional industries, outmigration...

East Asian Production Networks – The Role and Contribution of SMEs

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...