Local Economic Development (LED) - some key links, 2005-8

Description
LED knowledge page on the main DCED website

ILO's collaborative website on LED: www.LEDKnowledge.org.

"The Local Business Environment and Local Economic Development: Comparing Approaches", by Doug Hindson and Jorg Meyer-Stamer, can be downloaded from the link on the right hand side.

Also to the right is a link to the GTZ Paper on Local / Regional Economic Development in South-Eastern Europe. This entry also includes a couple of powerpoint presentations related to the main document. To download the document directly from the GTZ website, please click here.

The LED team of the Urban Development Unit of the World Bank have recently published a Trainer's Manual on Making LED Strategies. The site as a whole, with some very useful background documents (such as a Primer) and LED case studies sorted by region, can be found at www.worldbank.org/urban/led.

Also recent is the Paper by Shawn Cunningham and Jorg Meyer-Stamer, right, which argues that the orthodox approach to LED suffers from serious flaws; it makes recommendations on more promising approaches.

The NRI hosts a number of Papers on LED, including "Addressing poverty through local economic and enterprise development: A review of conceptual approaches and practice", by Davis and Rylance, 2005.

The mesopartner April newsletter includes some interesting comparisons between the value chain and the M4P approaches. Their Dec. 05 Newsletter had an interesting editorial, on a similar theme: 'How do "Enabling Environment" and "Making Markets Work for the Poor" relate to LED and PACA?'

Other interesting sites are at OECD and SDC.

An interesting case from VCCI in Vietnam is also included, right.



Associated Activities and Documents
Final Documentation
»	Local/Regional Economic Development in South-Eastern Europe, GTZ, 2006
Synthesis documents
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