Vol 5, No 2 (2017)

Integrated plans – a concept for upgrading the process of planning economic development in Macedonia

Virna Manasieva Gerasimova

Abstract

Successful models of local economic integrated development of the local community provide financial security and they are put into function of the national development of the country. The introduction of integrated planning process provides a more realistic opportunity for planning the priority projects and linking them to the both, objective financial potential of the municipality, but also to the available alternative financial opportunities outside the municipality, while at the same time reducing overproduction of strategic documents and uncoordinated spending of the scarce resources. The paper makes an attempt to indicate that integrated planning can be applied in the current Macedonian context regarding the decentralization process and that it has greater efficiency in creating priority activities in relation to the objective financial possibilities of the municipality.

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Keywords

Integrated planning; Systematic analysis; Development plans; Local economic development; Municipalities.

Publication information

Volume 5, Issue 2
Year of Publication: 2017
ISSN: 1857 - 8721
Publisher: EDNOTERA

How to cite

Manasieva Gerasimova, V.: Integrated plans – a concept for upgrading the process of planning economic development in Macedonia. Journal of Applied Economics and Business, Vol 5, No. 2, 5-11. (2017)