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Local Economic Development and Clusters

 
Local Economic Development (LED) is a strategy for promoting local economies as a way to fight poverty. LED programs often include elements of service market development and/or value chain development and vice versa. Cluster development refers to specific kind of LED strategies which focus on encouraging and supporting sectoral (and geographic) agglomerations of inter-connected companies, services and institutions. The targeted sectors are those that considered to offer the most local economic development potential. This page provides some key documents and links to information on LED and cluster promotion.

Contents

This page contains useful information and resources on Innovation Policy under the following groupings:

Click on an entry below to access a website or document. Suggestions for additions to this page are welcome at any time. Click here to contact the DCED Secretariat.

Overview and strategy documents of LED and Cluster Promotion

LED Cluster Promotion

LED/ Cluster programmes and case studies

Discussions, Proceedings and Podcasts

Methodologies, Tools and Training on LED and Cluster Promotion

Critical perspectives on LED 

Comparison of different LED approaches Comparative perspectives on LED and other private sector development approaches

Useful Resources



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