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Understanding your Local Economy: Key Issues and Quick Reference Materials

This Cities Alliance resource is a summary of methods tools and resources on how to organise economy assessments, identify data, collect and analyse data. It provides a short introduction to more detailed resources.

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.

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.

ECOLOC Programme- Programmes to Projects

Local Economic Development Toolkit

This is a comprehensive, online toolkit for a major LED effort in Ukraine- it includes methods, implementation options, baselines and strategies. The LEDNA team will try and link the many useful individual pages into the relevant LEDNA knowledge hub page to allow easy access. Thanks to USAID.

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.

Introduction to Local Economy Assessments:Trainer's Manual Module 2

This World Bank module presents rationale, methods and examples of how to understand the local economy ahead of devising an LED strategy with information and data to examine and forecast key factors that drive and affect the local economy.

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.

Building Competitiveness in Africa's Agriculture

This comprehensive guide looks at different approaches to value chain, together with told and examples- take a look it is unbiased and does not support one specific approach. This will soon become an interactive resource and I will share as soon as it is. Definitely worth reading ahead of undertaking value chain activities whether done in-house or consultants are commissioned. Gwen

Seventy-five percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas and most are involved in agriculture. In the 21st century, agriculture remains fundamental to economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental sustainability. The World Bank’s Agriculture and Rural Development publication series presents recent analyses of issues that affect the role of agriculture, including livestock, fisheries, and forestry, as a source of economic development, rural livelihoods, and environmental services. This Guide to value chain approaches provides the user with actionable methods and tools to design programs and investment projects that aim to increase the productivity and performance of sub-Saharan African agriculture. Value chains are a key framework for understanding how inputs and services are brought together and then used to grow, transform, or manufacture a product; how the product then moves physically from the producer to the customer; and how value increases along the way.Thanks to USAID BGI for uploading into the public domain.

Local Government Tax Enforcement in Tanzania

Taxation is increasingly seen as a key determinant and driver of public- private relations. This paper discusses tax collection in Tanzania and attempts to explain the widespread differences in revenue performance between local authorities. The links between development aid and taxation are also explored.