Increasingly governments and international organisations are attempting to reduce bureaucracy and red tape. While many of these reforms are aimed at national laws and reducing the costs of compliance, not much guidance is available on how local stakeholders can identify and attempt to streamline red tape at a local level.
In this publication, Shawn Cunningham and Mattia Wegmann share their…
Many development practitioners are familiar with the phrase “market failure”. However, not many people relate to the topic in a practical sense. Many remember boring lectures in universities where market failures were presented as abstract theoretical concepts in economics 101. In this book, Dr Shawn Cunningham takes a perspective that the clues to begin to address market failures…
Value chain promotion is increasingly being used by donor organisations and development agencies to conduct private sector promotion in a more effective way. This volume addresses two issues. What are the consequences of the phenomenon of value chains for SME promotion efforts? How can value chain promotion be effectively conducted at a local or regional level?
Author: Dr Jörg…
How to launch and sustain local economic development in developing and transformation countries: This book introduces Local Economic Development (LED) as an organic process. It will help you to get an LED process going quickly. It will tell you how not to spend too much time and money on research. It will explain how to pull various stakeholders into a participatory process, and how to move…
Rural communities in developing and transformation countries do not have to wait for somebody to save them. It is perfectly possible for them to boost the local economy using their own resources and ideas, and their own energy and creativity. The case studies in this volume explain how rural communities in Latin America, South Eastern Europe, Southern Africa and Asia have managed to create new…
This anthology brings together a large variety of articles and comments by development scholars and practitioners from all over the world. The opening article and pivot is a reprint of an influential publication on systemic competitiveness. Based on this concept, the authors are taking a look back and also ahead at various topics related to territorial development, value chain and cluster…
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Mesopartner joined the 21st Global Conference of the TCI-Network in Toronto
This year Mesopartner (Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke) again joined the Annual gathering of the global cluster community. On this occasion, the TCI-Network Global Conference took place in Canada’s largest city, Toronto, and was hosted by the Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity (@Institute_ICP) of the Rotman School of…
Managing complexity and uncertainty in social sector organisations in the UK
Marcus Jenal of Mesopartner spoke at an event at the Newcastle University Business School about how to better manage complexity and uncertainty in social sector organisations. About 30 people of organisations from the social care sector in the North East of England participated at the event. The participants came from…
Creating jobs for rural youth in Moldova
Mesopartner has been part of the development of a winning bid for a programme to support economic growth and the creation of jobs for rural youth in Moldova. The programme is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and will start in November. Mesopartner is one of three organisations partnering in delivering the…
