Local Economic Development

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. LED is a popular strategy for defined territories, such as urban areas and specific regions. Under the umbrella of LED, cluster development refers to specific kind of strategies which focus on encouraging and supporting sectoral and geographic agglomerations of inter-connected companies, services and institutions. This page points to key resources on these approaches.

DCED publications

Reviews of experience and evidence

Practical tools

Case studies

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