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The need for action at the local level can be addressed from four different but interrelated perspectives. The globalization of economic competition, which is often associated with the problem of a huge public budget deficit (the economic dimension). the transfer of welfare state responsibilities to local level and the shift of the costs of provision onto the private sector. These changes, especially in the big cities, aggravate the problems of social exclusion and poverty and pose the question of whether and to what extent local authorities are in a position to develop the capacity to focus their services and match them to modern social problems and challenges (the social dimension)
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Blanke, B., Smith, R. (1999). Challenges to Urban Policy: Modernization and the Mobilization of Local Resources in the Twentyfirst Century. In: Blanke, B., Smith, R. (eds) Cities in Transition. Anglo-German Foundation for The Study of Industrial Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982273_17
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