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Christian Schoen (mesopartner) and Jonathan Mitchell (Overseas Development Institute) talk about their efforts to promote tourism through local economic development activities in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang.

We discuss the evolution of LED in South Africa.

Why is it often difficult to involve the business sector in LED? What can you do to raise their interest? At one point, we refer to Malcolm Gladwell's concept of "connectors". More information on this is available at http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/tp_excerpt2.html.

In industrialized countries, LED has been practized for decades, whereas in developed countries it is a fairly recent phenomenon. Current practice in industrialized countries is the result of extensive learning-by-doing and trial-and-error processes. Practitioners in developing countries who want to learn for those experiences need to understand the evolutionary pattern of LED, and they need to ask the right questions to understand how current practice emerged.

In this programme, we discuss four different types of locations and the possible approaches to LED in each of them.

In this program, we discuss the difference between strategy and strategic planning and the meaning of strategy for LED.

Why has Local Economic Development received so much attention in recent years, both by local actors and by national governments?