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OECD LEED Programme

Created in the 1980s to help tackle unemployment, the LEED (Local Economic and Employment Development) is operated separately from OECD’s main activities funded by the Member States of OECD. LEED has regions and cities as its main members and operates at the sub national level. OECD LEED has identified themes, such as entrepreneurship, innovation and […]

ESF Actions to promote Local Employment Initiatives: final synthesis report

European Social Fund Actions to promote Local Employment Initiatives: final synthesis report (February 2011) Within its technical assistance to the European Social Fund’s strands on Transnational Cooperation and Innovation, DG EMPL assigned AEIDL to examine how Local Employment Initiatives have been supported by ESF over the last ten years. A synthesis report was the final […]

ENRD: The Implementation of Leader Approach

Focus Group 1 of Leader Subcommittee, European Network for Rural Development (EN RD) 2010 The Implementation of Leader Approach Length of report: Extended Report (42 pages); Supplementary Report (37 pages) Abstract: The ENRD Leader subcommittee Focus Group “on the Implementation of the bottom-up approach” prepared two reports on “the Implementation of the Leader Approach” in […]

Le manque de régionalisation perdure en France

Interview with Marjorie Jouen – in French – about Cohesion policies over the last 20 years, based on her book on La politique européenne de cohésion  

John M. Bryden: Local Development

John M. Bryden 2010 Local Development, ch 23 in “The Human Economy, A Citizen’s Guide”, Edited by K. Hart. J.L. Laville and A.D. Cattani, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010 Publication Type: book Length: pp 248-260 Abstract: The paper discusses the emergence of local development in two largely unrelated ways – opposition to growing state power […]

Robert Putnam: Social capital

Putnam, R.D., R. Leonardi and R.Y. Nanetti 1993 Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy Princeton University Press Length of book: 1-249 Abstract: Major impetus for the policy interest in social capital came from the publication of the work of Putnam et al (1993) on civic traditions in modern Italy. The concept of social […]

David Birch: The Job Generation Process

David Birch, 1979 The Job Generation Process Journal: MIT Program on Neighborhood and Regional Change vol 302 pp Abstract: This statistical report on the behavior of individual firms assesses how changes in employment and regional growth occur. A longitudinal file is developed for 5.6 million business establishments, used the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation data for […]

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