Future Prospects

Recently, the role of public sectors are changing rapidly. It means that the social service provisions are becoming to take many different forms. Globalization and marketization, including technological innovation, tend to promote the public interest services to be under the competition rules, including the internal market rules. To establish the rules to ensure the service of general interests for the people, the EU nations have been accumulating the serious experiences on how to adjust EU rules and co-operations.

Many members of CIRIEC-Japan have been contributing to domestic and international academic fields by making theoretical and empirical studies as shown in our above-mentioned Journals. Our subjects and international co-operative studies will become more and more important. We should make every effort to promote more useful relationship between the members of many international branches.

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