Progress in implementing the recommendations of the 2010 OECD Territorial Review of Sweden

This chapter is the “monitoring” component of this review. It features the activity surrounding Sweden’s implementation or partial implementation of over 50% of the recommendations made in OECD Territorial Reviews: Sweden 2010 and the ongoing implementation initiatives linked to an additional 30%. It highlights socio-economic and well-being dimensions of regional development in the 2010-15 period examines the advances Sweden has made in its regional growth policy, including how it addresses continual pressures from changing demographics and offers insight into the evolution of Sweden’s “hourglass”-shaped multi-level governance structures. The chapter sets the stage for this review’s subsequent chapters, which offer a more in-depth examination of rural development and the multi-level governance architecture.