Proceedings of the International Conference "Social Policy and Regional Development"

This volume contains the final versions of the papers presented at the conference Social Policy and Regional Development, held in Zagreb on 30 November 2006, covering the social aspects of regional development and regional aspects of social policy. 

In particular, the papers deal with incentives to the unemployed in 39 poorest neighbourhoods in England, unfavourable change in social and economic structure of the poorest Turkish regions that resulted from growing regional disparities, poverty in the rural areas of Croatia, negative social impacts of the private sector participation in water supply in the South Caucasus, the role of social partners in the management of the European Regional Development Fund in Poland, deinstitutionalisation, diversification and decentralisation in social services reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, attitudes of social groups towards some aspects of the quality of life in Primorje - Gorski Kotar County in Croatia, implications of the EU enlargement and cohesion for economic and social development in Turkey, and regional aspects of agricultural policy in Norway.