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We are pleased to send you the 5th Issue of the @local.glob journal, dedicated to the Inter-agency Conference on Local Economic Development (Turin, Italy, 22-24 October 2008).

The issue provides an overview of current LED challenges, interview with key partners and a list of resources, networks and contacts. Intended as the Background Reader for the LED Conference, it also provides an overview of the Agenda and the background of the event.

Topics covered range from territorial competitiveness, cluster development, value chain upgrading, sustainable tourism, responses to climate change at the local level, skills upgrading, indigenous peoples and cooperatives among others. All the experiences presented in this reader have in common the recognition of the specifics of localities and a concern for strengthening the local economy and creating decent work and a better quality of life for men and women.


In this issue...

I - Local Economic Development: challenges and opportunities

  • Building inclusive local economies through promoting decent work
    Jens Dyring Christensen and Kees van der Ree
  • Skills for competitiveness: anticipating change
    Learning from the OECD LEED Programme
    Francesca Froy
  • The role of local government in the promotion of local economic development
    An evolving UNCDF approach
    Aladeen Shawa
  • UNIDO’s approach to cluster development
    Fabio Russo
  • Promoting competitiveness through integrated local development initiatives
    Claudio Cortellese and Robert Daughters

II - Interview

  • Milestones and challenges of LED practice and academic research
    Interview with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
    Director of the Geography and Environment Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Promotion of competitiveness in municipalities from a regional perspective. An undertaking by FEMICA
    Interview with Patricia Durán de Jager
    Executive Director of the Federation of Central American Municipalities
  • Tourism value-chain upgrading in Nepal
    Interview with Gobinda Shrestha
    Ramechhap Chamber of Commerce and Industries.

 

III - @global…@local

  • UNDP’s response to climate change: adaptation and mitigation
    Andre Mershon, Rob Kelly, Andrew Crane-Droesch, Cassie Flynn, Bo Lim and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
  • weADAPT - Collaborating on climate change adaptation
    Fernanda Zermoglio and Tom Downing
  • Local economic development and the cooperative advantage
    Emma Allen
  • Decentralisation and the challenge of institutionalising local economic development
    Faith Lawrence and Tim Hadingham
  • Indigenous peoples and local economic development
    Jannie Lasimbang
  • Territory, opportunities and fairness: the Chile Emprende programme
    Cristina Orellana

 IV - Open Section

  • Networks and Internet resources on LED
  • LED Inter-Agency Conference Agenda
  • Ledknowledge.org
  • Delnet ITC/ILO