Public-private partnerships need to become a strong mechanism in the following period aiming infrastructure development at the local level. Local governments are faced with the lack of funds in the budget on the one hand, and with the demands of citizens, businesses and other beneficiaries for high quality services on the other hand. Solution to this problem should be sought in PPP at the local level. All factors in this process (local government, private enterprise, financiers) have an expressed motive (economic or political) for successful implementation of the project. Type of public-private partnerships depends on the type of infrastructure object, the total cost of investment and exploitation time. This paper presents three models of partnership depending on the manner the invested funds are returned, i.e. charge for object use, as follows: PPP projects that are charged to the end users, PPP projects that are charged to the local government and PPP projects with partial commercial use.
Small and medium enterprises are an important factor of economic development of a local government. Today in Serbia, two thirds of the total employed people are employed in small and medium-sized enterprises. Raising the competitiveness of SMEs and metal processing industry in the coming period is a particular challenge for all actors dealing with economic development (Government, local government, chambers of commerce, NGOs, etc.). In this paper we have analyzed the methodology for the development of programs to raise competitiveness of small and medium enterprises of the metal processing industry of a local government, or more specifically in this paper, the metal processing industry of the city of Kraljevo. The analysis presented in this paper should help all those involved in local economic development, and especially the development of SMEs, which measures should be taken in the future aiming to increase the competitiveness and development of this sector, which means opening new jobs, which is very important.
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