Bendrosios Pasienio Regiono Socialinės Ir Ekonominės Raidos Tendencijos Ir Verslo Augimo Veiksniai

Abstract

The article deals with Lithuanian-Latvian cross-border region economic development trends and economic growth disparities. The problem and relevance of the analysis of Klaipeda County and Kurzeme region's economic development are based on the comparison of regional development theories and competitiveness models, which provide the scientific novelty of the topic and scientific interpretations of the review. The analysis of the development of cross-border socio-economic indicators confirmed the sociocultural integrity, commonality of problems and similar further development strategic directions of Lithuanian-Latvian border region. The paper defines the main border region's business growth factors, which include human resources, knowledge resources, capital, infrastructure as well as internal and external demand conditions. The study emphasizes that principal guarantees of regional competitiveness are business development, work place stability, manufacturing and service sector development, and the social well-being of the population.

The road less travelled : scale in assessment and planning of highways

“…CBA research in fields that would be of use to SEA necessarily must embrace new ideas, especially those that widen and coarsen the assessment, often wholly opposite to conventional CBA practice. Bruzelius et al (2002), Hanley (1993), Kilijoniene (2010), Laird et al (2005), Metz, (2008, Snieska and Simkunaite (2009), Willis et al (1998) offer some exciting examples of new approaches in CBA that try to build stronger connections between CBA and SEA. Kulkarni et al (2004) particularly, propose an interesting form of CBA based on Daly's steady state economy concept -Need-Based Project Prioritization, a hybrid form between cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-based analysis, which is suited for use at coarse and broad scales.…”