Local Economic Development - World Bank Quick Reference Guide
This World Bank leaflet provides a concise introduction to local economic development for those new to the concept and implementation of LED. Available in 12 languages.
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Local Economic Development Strategy Casebook
This is an annotated casebook of local economic development strategies from high and middle income countries. It introduces readers to various approaches to designing LED strategies.
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Local Economic Development: Primer - World Bank
This primer provides an understanding of LED, why it is practiced, and how it is practiced. This strategic approach has been used in many countries. Comprehensive referencing to other resources. Multiple languages
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Mining and Local Economic Development
This website includes resources and tools on how mining communities can develop LED strategies and projects in partnership with the private sector. It links to a file application on the topic.
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Understanding your Local Economy: Analysing the Data- Guide to Data Analysis Tools
This chapter presents tools that can be used to analyse data collected on the local economy. It explains each tool, how it can be used, and gives examples of where it has been used.
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Handbook for Analyzing and Documenting the Urban Economic Base: Lithuania
The handbook examines the way LED activities work in the Lithuanian city of Vinus. It describes the various information possibilities of economic development, and provides analytical tools and techniques for urban economic base analysis.
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Assessing and Starting a Local Economic Development Initiative: A USAID Primer
This four-part primer introduces LED for USAID mission staff but is useful introduction for beginner’s too. It builds a conceptual understanding, gives successful strategies and case studies, and links to other sources.
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Local Economic Development: New Generations of Actors, Policies and Instruments
This paper discusses LED in low income countries. It offers useful definitions and categorizes LED activities into 3: community-based economic development, enterprise development and locality development.
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Agricultural Development Support Project, Zambia
Enterprise development can be improved for a set of interrelated enterprises by granting those incentives and an enabling environment. The objective of this World Bank project from Zambia is to support increased commercialization of smallholder agriculture through improved productivity, quality and efficiency of value chains where smallholders participate.
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Simplification of Business Registration, Belarus
Simplification of business regulation can increase transparency and speed local government interactions with businesses. The main objective of this Business Enabling Environment project in Belarus is to reduce the regulatory burden on SMEs in three specific areas: business registration of start-ups, permits, and inspections.
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