| Abstrakt: |
In this paper, the authors analyse the Leader Programme function, its principles and implementation in practice, comparing the European countries' experiences wiThthe development trends in Croatia. In a realistic way, they show the management issues, but they also point out the paths of rural area development according to other countries' experience. Using the method of analysis and synthesis, as well as by the field research conducted using the Delphi method, the authors wish to, as realistically as possible, show the Leader Programme model and its adoption in the current politics of our country's rural area management and development. This paper's aim is to illustrate the advantages of this programme as a current and future development model, but also to indicate the problems this particular programme encounters in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
