Creating Prosperous Towns

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 the approach suggested in this volume.