Download or read book Acting to Improve Local Economies written by Anna L. Haines and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Making Local Strategies Work Building the Evidence Base written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to support the design and delivery of more effective local and regional economic development strategies. A crucial part of this process is the collection and use of evidence, on local needs and options and on what works and what does ...
Download or read book Job Creation and Local Economic Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights new evidence on policies to support job creation, bringing together the latest research on labour market, entrepreneurship and local economic development policy to help governments support job creation in the recovery.
Download or read book The Local Economy Solution written by Michael Shuman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinventing economic development as if small business mattered In cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a crossroads. A growing body of evidence has proven that its current cornerstone--incentives to attract and retain large, globally mobile businesses--is a dead end. Even those programs that focus on local business, through buy-local initiatives, for example, depend on ongoing support from government or philanthropy. The entire practice of economic development has become ineffective and unaffordable and is in need of a makeover. The Local Economy Solution suggests an alternative approach in which states and cities nurture a new generation of special kinds of businesses that help local businesses grow. These cutting-edge companies, which Shuman calls "pollinator businesses," are creating jobs and the conditions for future economic growth, and doing so in self-financing ways. Pollinator businesses are especially important to communities that are struggling to lift themselves up in a period of economic austerity, when municipal budgets are being slashed. They also promote locally owned businesses that increase local self-reliance and evince high labor and environmental standards. The book includes nearly two dozen case studies of successful pollinator businesses that are creatively facilitating business and neighborhood improvements, entrepreneurship, local purchasing, local investing, and profitable business partnerships. Examples include Main Street Genome (which provides invaluable data to improve local business performance), Supportland (which is developing a powerful loyalty card for local businesses), and Fledge (a business accelerator that finances itself through royalty payments). It also shows how the right kinds of public policy can encourage the spread of pollinator businesses at virtually no cost.
Download or read book Development Management of Transforming Economies written by Fabiana Sciarelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book offers a new and innovative tool in the study of development. The authors propose ‘The Overall Development Model’ which provides a strategy for long-term, sustainable and adaptable development for countries around the globe. Starting with a comprehensive study into what development is and how it is achieved, Development Management of Transforming Economies critically analyzes current development schemes within transforming economies and examines their various actors both international and local, public and private. It examines the implementation of health, education and economic strategies of countries in Africa and Asia that have either undergone a development process, experienced slow but steady progress, or are just beginning to pursue a development strategy. In considering human development as a whole, the authors assert a new method of development that includes the developing population, and highlights the need for countries to define their own unique development process.
Download or read book Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2016 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Job Creation and Local Economic Development examines how national and local actors can better work together to support economic development and job creation at the local level.
Download or read book Promoting Local Economic Development in Egypt written by Omar Fathi Abozeid and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Local Economic Development continues to emerge as an important and a viable tool for achieving economic growth, creating new jobs, increasing income level, and improving the quality of life in different local communities, in both industrialized and developing countries. There are a number of different approaches to promoting Local Economic Development (LED), yet they all share a common rationale: assessing the local economy, identifying different challenges and economic potentials, coming up with a set of proposed interventions and projects, and collaborating with different local and national actors to implement those interventions and projects. Local administrations in Egypt, however, have little experience in adopting such comprehensive strategic planning approach to plan, manage, and develop their local economies. This study adopts a qualitative research approach by analyzing in-depth interviews conducted with a number of relevant local and national actors in order to explore one of the most solid LED promotion experiences ever to take place in Egypt: Fayoum LED Promotion Experience. The study was able to identify a number of external and internal challenges that hindered the full realization of the LED promotion process objectives in Fayoum. The main recommendations to overcome those challenges as suggested by this study include: institutionalize the LED promotion process, guarantee a formal political commitment to the process, develop a national framework for LED promotion, and move towards a decentralized local administration system. The study also proposes an alternative participatory partnership-based approach; Government-Led Active Partnership Approach (GAPA), that is designed on the assumption that local administrations have to promote LED within the currently identified challenges..
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Local Partnerships for Better Governance written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the lessons learned from the most recent experiences in seven countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy and the United States. This book proposes a strategy that governments can implement to improve governance through partnerships.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Better Use of Skills in the Workplace Why It Matters for Productivity and Local Jobs written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint OECD-ILO report provides a comparative analysis of case studies focusing on improving skills use in the workplace across eight countries.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Breaking Out of Policy Silos Doing More with Less written by Froy Francesca and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy silos and fragmented short-term policy interventions have become luxuries that our economies can no longer afford. This book provides concrete advice to policy makers at both national and local levels on how to better align policies, reduce duplication and waste, and “do more with less”.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED New Forms of Governance for Economic Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the new forms of governance overcome administrative, political and financial obstacles and impact local prosperity and the quality of life.
Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews Bergamo Italy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This follow-up to the 2001 OECD Territorial Review of Bergamo monitors progress over the past 15 years and reassesses the main development challenges the region faces.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development Skills Upgrading New Policy Perspectives written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the reader information on innovative initiatives that have succeeded in bringing new skills to people formerly trapped in low-wage jobs in various OECD countries.
Download or read book Local Economic Development in the 21st Centur written by Daphne T Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive look at local economic development and public policy, placing special emphasis on quality of life and sustainability. It draws extensively on case studies, and includes both mainstream and alternative perspectives in dealing with economic growth and development issues. The contributions of economic theories and empirical research to the policy debates, and the relationship of both to quality of life and sustainability are explored and clarified.
Download or read book Local Governance Economic Development and Institutions written by G. Gomez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Development' is what most people see as progress in the places where they live and in the ways they live. It has to do with public services, the ways to complain when these are not delivered properly, and the spaces to change power structures. It is related to the economy, the opportunities to access a secure job, a sustainable livelihood and increased welfare while caring for the planet and others. It is also linked to the institutions that allow people to live life well, using resources ethically and doing business responsibly in relation to other communities and future generations. This edited collection examines the interconnections between local governance, economic development and institutions, by focusing on what initiatives work and under what conditions they do so. Based on a variety of theories and empirical data, it presents evidence from current experiences around the world, revealed by researchers across different continents and several generations.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Skills Upgrading New Policy Perspectives written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the reader information on innovative initiatives that have succeeded in bringing new skills to people formerly trapped in low-wage jobs in various OECD countries.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Best Practices in Local Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the strong potential of the local development approach to help regenerate the economies and societies of less developed regions and to bring greater local participation in the decision-making and actions that underpin ...
