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Disc: $13.99 International tourism has a strong potential to benefit poor people. Jonathan Mitchell summarizes ODI's research on how tourism can be made pro-poor, and he discusses with Christian Schoen a tourism-focused PACA exercise in Da Nang, Vietnam.
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Disc: $13.99 The International Center for Tropical Agriculture has long experience in the promotion of value chains. Mark Lundy shares main lessons learnt in initiatives in Central America, and he discusses with Jörg Meyer-Stamer why the popular proposal to cut out the middleman is often not a good idea.
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Disc: $13.99 What are value chains? How are they related to territorial development? How can you promote them? What are the learning effects generated by integration into global value chains? These conversations give answers to these questions.
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Rapid Appraisal of Local Innovation Systems (RALIS) is a method to conduct, in a matter of weeks, an action-oriented diagnosis of a locality or local cluster. This paper gives an overview of the background, conceptual basis and results of RALIS.
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PACA is a proven method to launch or energize local economic development initiatives. It stimulates locally driven, inclusive bottom-up processes. This booklet gives an overview of the principles of PACA.
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Print: $33.57 Download: FREE PACA es un enfoque innovador y un rápido avance para el desarrollo económico local y regional. Utilizado en docenas de países de cuatro continentes, las organizaciones internacionales donantes lo están adoptando como enfoque corriente.
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Print: $33.57 Download: FREE PACA es un enfoque innovador y un rápido avance para el desarrollo económico local y regional. Utilizado en docenas de países de cuatro continentes, las organizaciones internacionales donantes lo están adoptando como enfoque corriente.
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Print: $22.74 Download: FREE 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 promotion, innovation and change. The reader will get a deep insight in the academic work and professional personality of Dr. Jörg Meyer-Stamer. At the same time it’s a gift for his 50th birthday.
Dr. Jörg-Meyer Stamer is a pioneer in local economic development. As a researcher at the German Development Institute he co-authored the concept of systemic competitiveness and published numerous monographs and articles in academic journals.
This book is an invitation to new debates in the development community.
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Print: $20.98 Download: FREE Value chain promotion is increasingly being used by donor organizations and development agencies to conduct private sector promotion in a more effective way. This volume addresses two questions. 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?
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Print: $8.77 Download: FREE Este manual contiene dos metodologías, el Café DEL y el Espacio Abierto, así como una parte conceptual, para familiarizar los actores
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De este modo, las metodologías adaptadas al contexto DEL, ayudan a sensibilizar a los actores locales y abren nuevas perspectivas para
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Print: $33.57 Download: FREE Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) is a methodology to conduct a rapid, action-oriented analysis of a local economy. It has been used in dozens of countries across the world to kick-start or energize local economic development processes. This manual gives checklists that help in organising a PACA Exercise and step-by-step instructions on workshop formats used in a PACA Exercise. -- This volume is a companion of "How to conduct a PACA Exercise", http://www.lulu.com/content/4353833
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Print: $36.36 Download: FREE Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage (PACA) is a methodology to conduct a rapid, action-oriented analysis of a local economy. It has been used in dozens of countries across the world to kick-start or energize local economic development processes. This manual gives a step-by-step instruction on how to conduct a PACA Exercise.
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Print: $13.19 Download: FREE The LED Café is an innovative facilitation tool to sensitize large groups of local stakeholders,
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Print: $27.97 Download: FREE Local economic development around agriculture and agriprocessing: examples and concepts. --
Local Economic Development (LED) is an effort to engage local stakeholders in a bottom-up effort to stimulate growth and prosperity. In rural areas, it has increasingly substituted top-down approaches. What are the chances this new approach offers? This book answers this question based on case studies from Latin America, Africa, South Eastern Europe and Asia.
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Print: $27.97 Download: FREE 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 into practical activities within a short period of time. There is a good chance that you will have some tangible and visible results after just a few months if you follow
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El Benchmarking es una metodología que facilita la mejora a través de la comparación. ¿Qué podemos aprender de los “mejores de la clase” o de “buenas prácticas”? Partiendo de unas definiciones genéricas, este articulo aplica este concepto a la competitividad de ciudades y regiones. Ejemplos de América Latina y Europa ilustran la variedad de posibles aplicaciones. El lector encuentra varios estímulos para identificar el instrumento para su contexto e interés especifico.
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