Strategic Planning on the Local Level As a Factor of Rural Development in the Republic of Serbia



Provided by Research Papers in Economics

Local Strategic Planning
as a Factor of Regional Development
In the Republic of Serbia

Zoran Njegovan, Ph.D.

Economics Institute, Belgrade

Introduction

From the point of view of economy, regional development policy could be seen as a tool
for the efficient administration and utilization of comparative and competitive
advantages in space and time. In the last few decades, the experiences in the Republic
of Serbia in this field are not of major importance. They have evidenced that the
application of a centralised administrative model in the management of social and
economic trends is not able to deal efficiently with the cumulated contradictions neither
at the national nor at the regional / local level to the least. It is necessary to deal with
these contradictions as soon as possible by changing the model of social and economic
development, since the negative effects of wrongly applied strategies and development
policies so far have reached unanticipated boundaries. Such an approach is also
required for the fact that Serbia has opted for joining the European Union, which means
complying with their standards and models of regional/rural/local development.

Development must be based upon the so-called “good administration” which, in its
essence, presupposes local strategic action planning as a basis for regional
development and a factor of competitiveness (“bottom-up” approach). What have to be
focused here are all formal and informal agents as well as formal and informal
structures so as to be able to make the proposed decisions in an acceptable way and
then implement them efficiently.

"Good and Bad Governance" - the element of a Sustainable
Strategic Planning

Recently the words governance and good governance have been increasingly used in
the literature connected with a local sustainable development. For this reason, big donor
communities and international financial institutions are binding its policy of financial



More intriguing information

1. Large-N and Large-T Properties of Panel Data Estimators and the Hausman Test
2. Commitment devices, opportunity windows, and institution building in Central Asia
3. Naïve Bayes vs. Decision Trees vs. Neural Networks in the Classification of Training Web Pages
4. Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households
5. The name is absent
6. Cancer-related electronic support groups as navigation-aids: Overcoming geographic barriers
7. Locke's theory of perception
8. The name is absent
9. Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
10. The name is absent
11. Centre for Longitudinal Studies
12. Structural Breakpoints in Volatility in International Markets
13. Mergers under endogenous minimum quality standard: a note
14. TECHNOLOGY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF PATENTS AND FIRM LOCATION IN THE SPANISH MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS INDUSTRY.
15. Dendritic Inhibition Enhances Neural Coding Properties
16. Protocol for Past BP: a randomised controlled trial of different blood pressure targets for people with a history of stroke of transient ischaemic attack (TIA) in primary care
17. The voluntary welfare associations in Germany: An overview
18. AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF COTTON AND PEANUT RESEARCH IN SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
19. A Study of Adult 'Non-Singers' In Newfoundland
20. The Impact of Individual Investment Behavior for Retirement Welfare: Evidence from the United States and Germany