Local Economic And Employment Development Leed Best Practices In Local Development

This book identifies the strong potential of the local development approach to help regenerate the economies and societies of less developed regions and to bring greater local participation in the decision-making and actions that underpin ...

This book examines best practices in evaluating programmes for local and regional economic and employment development.

This book contains recommendations for national and local policy makers and presents a set of international best practices for social enterprises.

Drawing from a wide array of case studies, this book analyses best-practice local strategies for increasing workforce skills. And it also takes a close look at the opportunities and challenges presented by international migration.

This book contains recommendations for national and local policy makers and presents a set of international best practices for social enterprises.

Social enterprises are long-standing agents of inclusive growth and democratization of the economic and social spheres, and they have proved resilient to economic adversity all the while addressing socio-economic challenges in innovative ways, re-integrating people back to the labour market, and

This book looks at the importance and potential of cluster initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Existing clusters are mapped, recent policy advances are described and conclusions are drawn on the potential of business clusters to foster economic growth.