Local Economic Development (LED)
Contents
About us Links to CEIDIR's pages
The BOTTOM-UP
approach towards Local Economic Development from A to Z
About us
CEIDIR
is an electronic forum for people interested in the bottom-up
approach towards local development. Our mission is to contribute to generate
and exchange information all around the world on this field through different
internet based services and activities.
CEIDIR
is divided in two working teams:
1. LED
Group is in charge of the publication of our electronic review on
development issues and of generating valuable information for people interested
in LED topics.
2. Network
XXI is in charge of organising electronic activities and services
which main purpose is the diffusion and exchange of ideas and information
related with the LED from below practice around the world.
Main Areas of Interest:
v
Globalisation and local response
v Institutions and local economic development
v Empowerment and capacity building
v Entrepreneurship
v
Politics and governance
The following document explains the BOTTOM-UP
approach towards Local Economic Development using phrases which
start with each letter of the alphabet (Adobe
Acrobat file).
Quotes
Have a look to phrases
written or said by well-known researchers and practitioners.
ON ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
‘It is not so much the individual environmental factors that
affect the entrepreneur, but the package or profile of factors. A package of
factors, …, is only as strong as its weakest link. Increasing an individual
factor, such as the availability of finance, will not necessarily lead to any
increase in entrepreneurial activity if other factors (education, regulation or
corruption) are constraints. Neither will increasing the amount of
entrepreneurship education, or reducing regulations, per se, increase the level
of entrepreneurial activity, if finance is a constraint… It is the whole
package of … environmental factors that is important to the level of
entrepreneurial activity. These packages tend to be time and place specific…’ Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
‘Enterprise development concerns business start-up, business
growth and development of main business practice... At the local level,
national and sectoral issues come together and are reinforced by the specific
local institutions that support or inhibit enterprise. These determine how
fertile the local environment is, both to new formation and to the development of
firms once they have been founded.’ R.
Bennet and A. McCoshen
‘Enterprise development is as much a social as a technological
or financial phenomenon.’ R.
Sweeney
‘... the poor are enormous, untapped reservoirs of initiative and
entrepreneurship, but their energies are often held in check by poverty,
misrule or conflict.’ Kofi Annan
ON ECONOMIC CRISIS
‘Crisis is a productive state provided you do not associate it
with catastrophe’ Max
Frisch
‘Depression economics ...is the study of situations where there
is a free lunch, if we can only figure out how to get our hands on it, because
there are unemployed resources that could be put to work. In 1930 John Maynard
Keynes wrote that "we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle,
having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we
do not understand". The true scarcity ... is not of resources... but
of understanding’. Paul Krugman
ON INSTITUTIONS
‘Societies that adopt the formal rules of another society will
have very different performance characteristics than the original country
because both, the informal norms and the enforcement characteristics will be
different. The implication is that transferring the formal political and
economic rules of successful Western market economies to Third World countries
and Eastern European economies is not sufficient condition for good economic
performance’ Douglass
C. North
‘It is adaptative rather than allocative efficiency which should
be the guide to policy. Allocative efficiency is a static concept with a given
set of institutions; the key to continuing good economic performance is a
flexible institutional matrix that will adjust in the context of evolving
technological and demographic changes as well as shocks of the system’ Douglass C. North
Four phrases that reflect part of our view on local
development issues
Links to CEIDIR's pages
Important note: If you read
Spanish, we recommend you to visit our Spanish version
which offers more activities and information
LED Group:
v CEIDIR's Review.
Electronic publication on local economic development issues.
v Bibliographic recommendations.
CEIDIR recommends different recent publications on development topics.
v Federal government
programmes information (Mexico). It is crucial to note the importance of information
which can be disseminated to benefit lagging regions or localities. We know
that in the most impoverished places
there is not access to Internet services but if your organisation has the opportunity
to reach them, you can inform their people about the different benefits which
they can obtain by means of national, regional (state) or international
programmes (Spanish only).
v Advice
and distance courses. CEIDIR offers an
electronic course on local development and public administration in the context
of a changeable international economy (only in Spanish). As well, CEIDIR offers
advice to public or private organisations which are interested in starting a
LED bottom-up process in their localities. If you are interested please contact us.
Network XXI:
v Tradinmex.
Information about how to buy Mexican products. Ask us about government
guidelines and requirements to open a business in any region of Mexico.
v Events. Promote your development
events with us without cost and get informed about what is happening in
different places around the world.
v Links to LED institutions.
Links to the Internet sites of leading development institutions.
Follow us in FACEBOOK
Suggestions
Please, send us
your comments about our site
www.ceidir.org
Ceidir©
Centro Electrónico de Impulso al Desarrollo Integral
de Regiones y Localidades, A.C. is a Mexican non-profit organisation.
The contents of articles, papers or any other document or links are responsibility of their authors. Their publication in any page of CEIDIR's website does not imply necessarily that CEIDIR shares their points of view.
It is not allowed to alter, transform,
or build upon the contents of this site and you cannot use this work for
commercial purposes.