From the World Bank Website. These LED approaches and accompanying case studies were carried out under the World Bank Delta programme
Republic of Korea
Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority
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Created with the aim of improving the business enabling environment for foreign enterprises and workers, the Incheon Free Economic Zone is a specially designated area that is managed by the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZA). As an independent administrative body, IFEZA provides various types of administrative services for businesses. IFEZA provides an example of a spatially targeted approach to facilitating economic and private sector development.
Singapore
Singapore Economic Development Board(cache)
Set up in 1961 to facilitate a self-sustaining enterprise system, the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) is the lead agency that plans and executes strategies to sustain Singapore as a global hub for business and investment. As an example of a agency approach to business and local economic development, EDB works with businesses to upgrade value-creating operations across manufacturing and internationally traded services.
Vietnam
Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative(cache)
Devised as an economic growth project to improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout Vietnam, the Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative (VNCI) is a multicomponent project that supports the development and growth of the Vietnamese private sector. Its project provides assistance in policy reform as needed by emerging business sectors and facilitates the development of SMEs and improved access to credit.
Europe & Central Asia
LED Strategy Planning and Practice Casebook(cache)
A core aim of this book is to highlight practical knowledge and approaches that can be used by municipal governments and communities to understand, design and implement integrated LED strategies. This Casebook seeks to provide an understanding of municipal approaches to LED strategic planning by identifying good practice in strategic planning methodology. The Casebook serves as a collection of six local economic development strategies that provide examples of good practice from across Europe and from the Cities of Change(cache) network. The Casebook also contains good practice notes and comments.
Local Government and Economic Development
This publication takes stock of the actions and tools used by local governments to spark economic development, crucially by protecting existing jobs and businesses as well as bringing new jobs and new businesses to their areas. Reports are included on Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Russia andSlovakia, with a special chapter on urban land development in Russia and Ukraine
Albania
Albanian second-tier cities network LED strategies.
The DELTA program focuses on building institutions within municipal governments and exploiting private sector resources that can foster and support policy reform for private sector development. The World Bank Group Small and Medium Enterprise Department, together with Open Society Institute Local Government and Public Sector Reform Initiative (OSI/LGI), piloted this program with the goal of addressing institutional and policy reforms at the local level.
Local Business Enabling Environment (BEE) Survey Instrument for Albania.
This is the survey used by localities in Albania to obtain information on citizens’ perceptions of local conditions and regulations that affect local businesses, with the goal of highlighting policies and practices that hinder business development and identify key concerns and issues facing local businesses.
Analysis of BEE Survey for Albania.
This report shows the analysis of the BEE survey for Albania. It presents in a comparative manner the responses of the interviewees. It is useful for readers of the report to compare the results of different municipalities and consequently draw conclusions on their relative performance or conditions.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prijedor Entrepreneurship and SME Development Strategy
This strategy is focused on entrepreneurship and small- and medium-seized development, the anticipated main element of economic development for the Prijedor Municipality. It is based and developed on the concept of creating conditions for improvement of the business environment, creation of new enterprises, development and growth of existing enterprises and attraction of domestic and foreign investors.
Zenica Entrepreneurship and SME Development Strategy
An LED strategy that seeks to foster the development of small and medium sized enterprises and entrepreneurship. With a forward looking vision, the strategy recognizes the need to work with different tiers of government and identifies five strategic goals that each support the mission of creating a strong entrepreneurial center with a diversified economy.
Bulgaria
City of Smolyan Local Economic Development Strategy
Developed as part of the Cities of Change program, this LED strategy pursues a step-by-step approach to strategic planning that covers the five key stages of strategy development. It includes a comprehensive breakdown of the municipal budget and a thorough local economy assessment.
Kosovo
Kosovo DELTA 2 Local Economic Development Strategies
As part of the ongoing LED capacity building program in Kosovo, a further 5 communities have just completed developing their local economic development strategies. These are available in both English and Albanian.
The DELTA program focuses on building institutions within municipal governments and exploiting private sector resources that can foster and support policy reform for private sector development. The World Bank Group Small and Medium Enterprise Department, together with Open Society Institute Local Government and Public Sector Reform Initiative (OSI/LGI), piloted this program with the goal of addressing institutional and policy reforms at the local level.
Kaçanik Municipality Strategy for Municipal Economic Development
Developed as part of the ‘Developing Enterprises Locally Through Alliance and Action’ (DELTA) project to enhance municipal capacities for SME Development, the Kaçanik strategy provides an example of a newly initiated and well-developed strategy for LED planning. Details of other DELTA strategies can be viewed at the DELTA web site: http://www.deltakosova.org/
Municipality of Vushtrri Strategy for Municipal Economic Development http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTLED/Resources/vushtri-strategy-delta.pdf
This strategy provides a good example of a succinct and structured approach to devising and developing an LED strategy. In conveying the preferred direction of the municipality, the strategy covers the five key stages of organizing the effort, the local economy assessment, strategy making, strategy implementation and strategy review.
Latvia
City of Rezekne Strategy for Local Economic Development
This strategy provides an overview of Rezekne’s multi-year financing plan and capital improvement planning system. It is accompanied by an interesting section detailing the development of an agency approach to LED that has been established to oversee strategy implementation.
Slovak Republic
City of Poprad Strategy for Local Economic Development
This LED strategy contains a detailed overview of the LED institutional set-up that is necessary to carry forward LED strategic planning. The strategy provides an overview of Poprad’s multi-year financing plan and capital improvement planning system, and includes information on the role and results of a business attitude survey as a means of informing LED strategy from a private sector perspective.
Latin America & Caribbean
Colombia, Cali: Toward a City Development Strategy(cache).
See chapter 3 on Economic Reactivation: (i) the model of social capital accumulation that evolved during most of the twentieth century is discussed, as are the weaknesses and limitations that caused this model to collapse in the 1990s; (ii) the chapter discusses the challenges and demands that shape Cali’s governance at present; and (iii) the chapter proposes strategic priorities for institutional modernization in Cali.
Peru, Villa El Salvador(cache)
This is an example of encouraging local business growth, investment in hard and soft infrastructure, as well as new enterprise and promoting inward investment.
PRODERE Project: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala
This case study shows how to encourage local business growth and new enterprise.
Various Latin American Cities
Partnerships, Meso-institutions and Learning: New local and regional economic development initiatives in Latin America.
Middle East & North Africa
Yemen: Local Economic Development Strategies for the Cities of Mukalla and Hodeidah
Supported by a Cities Alliance Grant and Bank-financing from the Port Cities Development Project, these strategy reports provide excellent models of how to apply and integrate City Development Strategies (CDS) methodologies into long-term Local Economic Development efforts. The Strategies were developed around (i) an in-depth assessment of each city’s economy and local endowments, applying a cluster analysis approach, (ii) participatory consultations with the private sector and city-based universities and civil society organizations, (iii) development of a comprehensive master plan, and (iv) preparation of a multi-year capital investment plan based on each city’s growth potential and the framework of the new master plan. The strategies themselves are short, succint, distilled elements of the analytical work and reports that were financed by Cities Alliance and the World Bank.
City of Mukalla (PDF 6.7MB) |
City of Hodeidah (PDF 4.7MB)
City of Aden (PDF 7.51 MB)
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Sub-Saharan Africa
LED and Low Income Countries: Research Reports.(cache)
These research reports were initiated by the World Bank and funded through the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP). The research is titled Evaluating and Disseminating Experiences in Local Economic Development. The overall objective of the research was to identify Local Economic Development (LED) lessons and examples that have relevance to low-income developing countries, particularly to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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