competitiveness

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.

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.

ICT as a Catalyst to Entreprise Competitiveness: A Research Report

This USAID report examines the use of ICT as a tool to increase enterprise competitiveness. It also focuses on how to engage the private sector in successfully implementing the tools of ICT, the successes and challenges of various ICT projects, and how ICT is being used in a variety of sectors, such as manufacturing, agriculture, and tourism.

ICT as a catalyst for enterprise competitiveness: Daybreak Series

3 Mar 2010

Where: Armenia Bulgaria China Egypt Ghana Kenya Macedonia Senegal Zambia

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Blog : ideas on competitiveness

The classical approach about the concept of competitiveness points out competition between systems (businesses, territories) for attracting external resources (technical, economic, financial, technological, human, etc) against the detriment of other ones.

In the majority of cases the objective of increasing sales has neglected important effects, in terms of environmental and social impact, and this has much to do with the current international economic, social, and financial crisis.

Is it possible to think about a new innovative approach on competitiveness, including social and environmental paradigms?

Does this imply new forms of governance and economic democracy?

ILS LEDA, the UNOPS program which provides international links and services for Local Economic Development Agencies (www.ilsleda.org), has launched an open debate space of ideas and opinions about the issue, starting from a draft document for discussion which you can find in the blog http://ilsleda.blogspot.com/

This initiative is part of the ART (Articulating Territorial and Thematic Networks for Human Development) Scientific Committee Program, promoted by Edgar Morin and aimed at improving the quality and the effectiveness of development policies and practices, and at accompanying the search for innovative solutions (see also www.ideassonline.org).

The results of this discussion will be published in the the electronic International Journal on Human Development and International Cooperation "Universitas Forum"(www.universitasforum.org), and, in general, could improve the United Nations contribution to human development programs.

We will very much appreciate any contribution to the discussion you could provide through the above mentioned blog http://ilsleda.blogspot.com/

Thank you

Giancarlo Canzanelli, ILS LEDA Coordinator

Case Study: Municipality of Grimsby

This case study from the Municipality of Grimsby (UK) shows how the local government dealt with a declining economy and increasing unemployment during the mid-1980s. Taking its point of departure in a competitiveness assessment, the local government initiated a series of sector-based programs to diversify the economy away from fishing. Among the initiatives is a Food Processing Cluster Development strategy.

Location, Competition, and Economic Development

In this paper, Michael E. Porter deals with clusters, defined as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, in a globalized context. Even though globalization has diminished the traditional reasons for clustering, Porter highlights new influences of clusters on competitive advantage and the growing importance of clusters in an increasingly complex economy.

The Economy and Employment Structure and Trends in Karu

This study conducted by the Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development (CASSAD) in Nigeria is a portrait of the economic structure in the Karu community. The study exemplifies how the informal sector can be integrated into an economic assessment.

Economic Baseline Study for Ten Nominated Districts in KwaZulu-Natal

This economic baseline study offers an economic portrait of ten districts in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). The baseline study can provide inspiration when conducting an economic assessment.