The Challenge of Rural Development in the EU Accession Countries: Third World Bank/FAO EU Accession Workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 17-20, 2000, Volumele 23-504Csaba Csáki, Zvi Lerman World Bank Publications, 1 ian. 2001 - 210 pagini This study updates the 1993 telecommunications review published by the World BankÂ's Operations Evaluation Department. It recommends that the World Bank reaffirm its strategy in the broader information infrastructure. This study also recommends that gaps in the current monitoring and evaluations systems be filled at both the project and global level in order to provide the necessary framework to evaluate the future effectiveness of the revised strategy. |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
accession countries Accession Workshop activities actors agricultural and rural agricultural policy agricultural sector allocation approach assistance average Budapest Bulgaria Canada capacity building capital CEECS Central and Eastern constraints context cooperation Czech Republic decentralization development strategies diversification economic employment enterprises environment environmental European Commission European Union farm farmers framework gminas groups Henry Plumb Hungarian Hungary impact implementation important improve income increase industrial infrastructure institutions integrated investment issues labor productivity land Latvia LEADER major measures NFRE NGOs non-agricultural non-farm rural NUTS-II OECD opportunities output partnership Poland potential problems programs projects reform regional development role Romania rural areas rural communities rural development policy rural economy rural policy Rural Sector SAPARD Slovakia Slovenia SMEs social Structural Funds structural policy sustainable territorial Third EU Accession transition United urban villages VUZE World Bank
Pasaje populare
Pagina 74 - The objectives of the common agricultural policy shall be: (a) to increase agricultural productivity by promoting technical progress and by ensuring the rational development of agricultural production and the optimum utilization of the factors of production, in particular labour...
Pagina 150 - Community shall aim at reducing disparities between the levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least-favoured regions, including rural areas.
Pagina 173 - Most new lands brought under cultivation are marginal and ecologically fragile and cannot make up for the land being removed from cultivation each year because of urbanization and land degradation. The...
Pagina 74 - ... to ensure a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, in particular by increasing the individual earnings of persons engaged in agriculture...
Pagina 46 - ... improving the structures for quality, veterinary and plant-health controls, for the quality of foodstuffs and for consumer protection; • agricultural production methods designed to protect the environment and maintain the countryside; • development and diversification of economic activities, providing for multiple activities and alternative income; • setting up farm relief and farm management services...
Pagina 46 - SAPARD should relate to one or more of 15 measures, namely: • investments in agricultural holdings; • improving the processing and marketing of agricultural and fishery products; • improving the structures for quality, veterinary and plant-health controls, for the quality of foodstuffs and for consumer protection...
Pagina 46 - ... setting up producer groups, • renovation and development of villages and the protection and conservation of the rural heritage, • land improvement and re-parcelling, • establishment and updating of land registers, • improvement of vocational training, • development and improvement of rural infrastructure, • agricultural water resources management, • forestry, including afforestation of agricultural areas, investments in forest holdings owned by private forest owners and processing...
Pagina 109 - CEEC food supply chains" in Tangermann, S., and M. Banse (eds.), Central and Eastern European Agriculture in an Expanding European Union, CAB International. Gow, H. and J. Swinnen (1998), "Agribusiness Restructuring, Foreign Direct Investment, and Hold-Up Problems in Agricultural Transition", European Review of Agricultural Economics, 25(4):33 1-350.
Pagina 172 - Bank's rural development experience was critical of many design elements, including setting up enclave projects outside regular administrative structures, excessive reliance on expatriate technical assistance, and a tendency to up-scale projects before adequate pilot experience had been gained. Linkage to civil society was usually vague and fragile, especially in the early projects, although subsequent project preparation, along with considerable institutional commitment in the 1990s, and implementation...