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11. Mesopartner Working Paper 05  
Mesopartner Working Paper 05 The Hexagon of Local Economic 
Development and LED in South Africa. Local economic development (LED) has been implemented in industrialised countries for decades. Since the 1990s, many developing countries have seen the launch of LED activities. But despite the pervasiveness of the practice, there is no academic discipline which lays the conceptual foundations.  
12. Mesopartner Working Paper 04  
Mesopartner Working Paper 04 Why is Local Economic Development so difficult, and what can we do to make it more effective? LED is increasingly being propagated by donor agencies and governments in developing countries. Yet there is only scant evidence that LED has ever been successful anywhere. There are two sets of reasons for the poor performance of LED: inherent reasons and issues related to…  
13. Mesopartner Working Paper 03  
Mesopartner Working Paper 03 The Hexagon of Local 
Economic Development. Local economic development (LED) has been done in industrialised countries for decades. Since the 1990s, many developing countries have seen the launch of LED activities - driven by legal requirements, such as in South Africa, or be sheer necessity, such as in many Latin American countries. But despite the pervasiveness of…  
14. Mesopartner Working Paper 02  
Mesopartner Working Paper 02 Rapid Appraisal of Local Innovation Systems (RALIS): 
Assessing and Enhancing Innovation Networks. Rapid Appraisal of Local Innovation Systems (RALIS) is a methodology to conduct a rapid diagnosis of a locality, a value chain or a cluster with a special focus at technology and innovation.  
15. Mesopartner Working Paper 01  
Mesopartner Working Paper 01 Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA): Effectively Launching Local Economic Development Initiatives. In developing countries, there is an increasing awareness of the necessity to formulate and implement economic development strategies at the local level (local economic development, LED). The 1990s have seen the demise of traditional approaches to…  
16. Planning or Doing Local Economic Development? Problems with the Orthodox approach to LED  
Planning or Doing Local Economic Development? Problems with the Orthodox approach to LED This Africa Insight article interrogates the planning-driven approach to LED and contrasts it with an evolutionary approach.  
17. Modern Industrial Policy or Postmodern Industrial Policies?  
Modern Industrial Policy or Postmodern Industrial Policies? Industrial policy is a multidimensional term combining a number of different policy fields at a number of levels. As a result, political control suffers. The changes in general conditions brought about by globalisation only make things harder by hampering the design of industrial policy. To make coordination more efficient, the control…  
18. Promotion of Technology and Innovation in the Context of “Sustainable Economic Development”  
Promotion of Technology and Innovation in the Context of “Sustainable Economic Development” Technical assistance has a tendency to address technology and innovation in an implicit way, as something that is elementary in creating or strengthening productive sectors and services in latecomer countries. Technology is often addressed in an intuitive way. For sector specialists, it goes without…  
19. Assessing the Applicability of Private Sector Development Instruments in Agricultural Economic Development  
Assessing the Applicability of Private Sector Development Instruments in Agricultural Economic Development The starting point of this GTZ paper is the observation that private sector development (PSD) and agricultural economic development (AED) have historically been two distinct approaches in development cooperation. Both looked at ways to promote productive development in developing countries.…  
20. Behind the Myth of the Mittelstand Economy. The Institutional Environment Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Germany  
Behind the Myth of the Mittelstand Economy. The Institutional Environment Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Germany INEF Report. Project Meso-NRW. North Rhine-Westphalia: Structural Economic Change, Regional Economic and Locational Policy, Ecological Formulation of State Policy - A Survey from the Viewpoint of Advanced Developing Countries  
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