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65 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,505 Regional Development and Policy papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • The significance of the scope of AI use in public finance remains an open area for debate regarding the introduction of necessary legislative and organizational changes, as well as the direction of research on technology development.

    The artificial intelligence implementation by local government units in Poland. Legislative challenges of digital transformation in public finances · 2025 · DOI

  • Analysis of the labor market based solely on the unemployment rate is insufficient, which is even more visible in the face of the consequences caused by the COVID–19 pandemic as that measure does not include the “discouraged worker effect”.

    Labor Market Slack in the EU during the COVID–19 Crisis · 2024 · DOI

  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Commission (EC) often emphasise that expenditure on the SP system in Lithuania is scarce, income poverty and inequality are critical, not improving.

    Social Protection Benefits Compatibility and Evaluation Criteria: the Case of Lithuania · 2024 · DOI

  • However, while Polish regions generally enjoy high levels of autonomy and have received considerable support from the EU, the changing structure and orientation of Polish regional development strategies remains an understudied area.

    <b>One size fits most: On the emergence</b> of differentiated regional policy in Poland · 2024 · DOI

  • The static version, described by Wydymus and Lira, does not account for the presence of missing (NA) values in a data array, in contrast to the proposed dynamic modification, which does.

    A dynamic approach to relative taxonomy in the assessment of changes in the social cohesion of polish provinces in 2010-2018 · 2022 · DOI

  • The evidence supports the quest for further research on the quality of governance and competitiveness to understand the dynamics of the development at the local and regional levels and develop proposals for improvement and measures adapted to the needs and capacities of groups of municipalities with similar behavior.

    Assessment of the Quality of Governance and Competitiveness at the Local Level: The Case of Slovenian Municipalities · 2021 · DOI

  • </p><p><strong>Main findings:</strong> The conducted research showed that the main nationwide barriers to the growth of developers’ activity are insufficient purchasing power of the population resulting from the lower wealth of the Polish society, different regulations regarding the protection of buyers of developer dwellings, a smaller level of government support for both the demand and supply side of developers’ activity.

    Conditions for the Growth of Developers’ Activity on the Example of Poland and France · 2021 · DOI

  • Considering that African countries are not official signatories but are aligning their systems of education to the BP, and in the absence of a coordinated effort and the use of digital technology to produce and present data that documents and maps out progress, tracing the diffusion process in this context is challenging, which is the reason for limited research in this area.

    Policy diffusion and transfer of the Bologna Process in Africa’s national, sub-regional and regional contexts · 2020 · DOI

  • This study aims to fill this gap in the literature, by developing an index of government performance for assessing the ability of EU mem­ber-state governments to adopt a strategic vision on innovation and to provide good-quality public services.

    Performance and Innovation in the Public Sector of the European Union Countries. An Analysis Based on the Dynamics of Perceptions, 2009-2016 · 2019 · DOI

  • This research contributes to prior work by seeking to understand EIP in decision-making in an understudied sample of CEE countries and provides an insightful classification.

    Employee participation and representation in Central and Eastern Europe · 2019 · DOI

  • According to the statistics released by OECD and EUROSTAT, Italy has fallen behind because of evident contradictions: even though the idea of a knowledge society is celebrated on the level of rhetoric, public resources for strategic sectors remain insufficient.

    Paradoxes of the Knowledge Society Some Considerations on the Italian Situation · 2017 · DOI

  • The entire process of Bosnia and Herzegovina's path to European integration so far, is mostly limited to the problems of achieving political consensus, neglecting the essence and purpose of the integration process, which is primarily reflected in achieving the real convergence of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the EU.

    REAL CONVERGENCE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TOWARDS THE EUROPEAN UNION · 2017 · DOI

  • However, the authors emphasised that the space for contribution of commercial diplomacy to the increase of export and FDI is insufficient, due to limited export potential and poor investment climate in Serbia.

    Commercial Diplomacy In Serbia: Characteristics And Areas For Improvement · 2014 · DOI

  • Moreover, the DROM regions remain to be an exemplification of the ‘learning region’ concept, which is proved by the effective involvement of particular innovation centresin the promotion of modern branches of industry.

    Innovation Policy Impact on Technologically Advanced Industries in Overseas France Departments · 2013 · DOI

  • There were used the multidimensional comparative analysis of the sequence separation of homogenous objects subsets (cluster analysis and quick cluster) and the little known in Poland, but popular in the US, measurement technique of sectoral changes in time – the shift share-technique to illustrate and verify empirically the theory of three sectors by A.

    Differentiation of Modernization Processes in EU Countries and in Poland in Time and Space - Non Classical View · 2009 · DOI

  • As these economic trends continue, and as spatial planning takes on growing significance within the EU, there remains uncertainty about the role of spatial policy in the inward investment process.

    Territorial cohesion, economic growth and the desire for European 'balanced competitiveness' · 2005 · DOI

  • In spite of repeated demands by the European Parliament and the EU Member States, responsibility for European spatial development policy remains unclear.

    Coordination in European spatial development: <i>Whose responsibility?</i> · 2005 · DOI

  • Functions and tasks of county govemments were defined generally, but it become fairly clear from the regulation that function of new type county govemments – with the one-sided overstatement of the principle of subsidiarity – has limited to the maintaining of institutions are providing public services.

    Változatok a középszintre, avagy a magyar középszinttelenség · 1999 · DOI

  • The primary aim of !his study has been to provide a contribution to the National Conception for Regional Development towards working out a regional policy in Hungary which takes into account the innovational potentials of individual regions, strengthens potentials or, as far as possible, creates them wherever they are lacking.

    Innovational perspectives - contributions to the national conception for regional development in Hungary · 1996 · DOI

  • is sparse by comparison with a national average of 389, but is nevertheless higher than the 162 persons per sq. Drente is scarcely less poor than Friesland, but - in contrast to Friesland and Groningen - has registered a marked rise in prosperity since 1960.

    THE NORTHERN NETHERLANDS LARGE PROBLEM AREA IN A SMALL COUNTRY, SMALL PROBLEM AREA IN A LARGE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY · 1972 · DOI

  • A strategy focused on revitalising economic conditions and combating so- cial marginalisation in the most peripheral regions is lacking.

    EU Cohesion Policy support for problem areas identified in the NSRD 2030: spatial differentiation and policy directions · 2026 · DOI

  • However, practical experience suggests that the professional, sectoral, and industry focus of innovation ecosystems is a distinctive feature of cooperation and research in this area is warranted.

    Az innovációs ökoszisztémák ágazati sajátosságai és osztályozásának lehetőségei · 2024 · DOI

  • The considerations were limited to a group of non-monetary indicators of social exclusion selected by the author on the basis of the analysis of the literature on the subject, which included the Laeken indicators.

    Non-monetary indicators of social exclusion – A multidimensional comparative analysis of the EU-10 countries · 2021 · DOI

  • The paper begins with the understanding that the three-decade-long transition period from a socialist economy to the market one, as an integral part of comprehensive changes in Eastern Europe, both political and ideological ones, remains to be a quite problematic and ongoing process.

    "Second curve" concept as a key driver of economic development in the emerging markets · 2021 · DOI

  • However, the issues regarding legislative and other administrative barriers and their perception by SMEs as a heterogeneous group of enterprises are not yet fully investigated.

    The Perception of Administrative Barriers and Their Implications for SMEs’ Performance: Evidence from Slovenia · 2018 · DOI

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