REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN 21ST CENTURY

Regional Development in the 21st century: The challenges for Local Economic Governance

Regional Development in the 21st century: The challenges for Local Economic Governance

Introduction

Today's world is undergoing a massive decentralization and redistribution of public accountability movement, both in economic and political level or in the social and ecological dimensions, place no doubt become an important actor. On the economic level, city and modern urban groups and other local areas have conditions conducive to knowledge-based economy, regional development constitutes a "growth pole core", which led the world level, the economic effect of the islands; at the political level, local self-government entities political environment of a country constitute an important component of the decomposition and sinking the power to change the traditional "political - social" relations, community autonomy and local participation in international affairs began as a new form of democracy promotion; in the social and ecological dimensions, composition network structure of social relationships and interactions (including between people, between people of the village and the relationship between man and nature interaction) can be best managed. Localization to the theme of competing cohesive development and international expansion into the theme of the parallel cross-domain-oriented regional development has become the main direction today.

In economic governance among local government institutions is a key, they can more accurately assess the industry needs - because they hold the place of the more accurate information, their size and make important public and private participation in economic activities were able to successfully interact and co-operation. Therefore, the regional development and local interests are very closely related; in some cases, where the process of regional development policy of national identity than the more prominent features. The design of the system of separation of powers is now brought about the rise of local power to ensure that the benefits of regional development and benefit to the local public.

The rise of local forces caused by changes in the multiple power structure, and promote the relationship between central and local structure evolution; the nature of the local government has a policy by an agent recipients and implementers, and limited the autonomy of actors, into the relative independence of actual actors, which greatly broke the previous mode of vertical control and the traditional separation of powers. The promotion of local governance within a certain range and to a certain extent, the local administrative divisions from the simple management framework in the "liberated" them, contributed to the local role in the governance structure remodeling and an important mission in regional development the play.

Second, the local-oriented policy of the European Regional Development Progress

Although the long-occupied Europe, major economies in the world top three position, but the regional development gap between the prevalence in European countries. Especially in Europe to achieve a historic breakthrough in the integration and gradually eastward expansion, the development gap between Europe, the more local Niagara. This not only has a geographical differences in resource endowments and other natural history and development of social factors such as the objective basis of influence, but another system of ...