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AbstractThe Constitution of South Africa imposes a burden on municipalities to engage in local economic development. Municipal local economic development practitioners are often in doubt regarding the various mechanisms available to them to implement loca... see more

Despite the urgent need for local economic development in South Africa, Local Economic Development (LED) as area of professional endeavour/activity has largely failed to live up to this need. In this article, an alternative approach to local eco... see more

Local history has been much neglected in many social studies curricula, in spite of its potential for providing students with authentic and proximal objects of study for the development of historical thinking and understanding of historical agency. This p... see more

Many Chinese local undergraduate universities are now being engaged in transition development. The aim of this study is to explore professional agency of English teachers at Chinese local undergraduate universities from the perspective of activity theory.... see more

This article analyses some problems emerging in aid practices aimed to support civil society in developing countries. First, it reports the debate emerged in critical development studies regarding non-state actors, and particularly nongovernmental organiz... see more

The aims of this study were: (1) to evaluate the performance of community health centers (Puskesmas) that implement PPK BLUD (Pola Pengelolaan Keuangan Badan Layanan Umum Daerah, a specific type of Financial Management of Local Public Service Agency); (2)... see more

The aims of this study were: (1) to evaluate the performance of community health centers (Puskesmas) that implement PPK BLUD (Pola Pengelolaan Keuangan Badan Layanan Umum Daerah, a specific type of Financial Management of Local Public Service Agency); (2)... see more

The aim of this Special Issue is to present examples of how territories and regions cope with peripherality, in both a top-down and a bottom-up perspective, particularly relying on case studies that highlight the role of local agency in the development st... see more

The article presents a theoretical and analytical reconstruction of A.Giddens’ Structuration theory as an attempt of ‘structure-agency’ synthesis in sociology. The concept of structuration is introduced by Giddens to solve the problem of duality of struct... see more

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