To achieve critical development goals, we need to champion local, innovative solutions to social problems. Entrepreneurship is rapidly evolving in many low- and middle-income countries in Africa, ...

World Bank's Community and Local Development bridges the youth jobs gap in fragile, conflict-affected countries by empowering communities, women, and micro-enterprises to drive local economic growth.

Sri Lanka’s Local Development Support Project (LDSP) empowered 134 local authorities in four lagging provinces to deliver community services. Urbanization, when well-planned and managed, can be a ...

Deepen your understanding of local and regional economic development in this specialist programme, affiliated with the Institute for Economic Development (IED). Technological change, shifting patterns ...

AS the promise of elections looms, manifestos take centre stage, promising reform and progress. In our volatile context, empowering local governments is a crucial, yet often overlooked pathway towards ...

Businesses often cite the complexity and risk involved in the English planning system as a barrier to investment. However, the English planning system already contains mechanisms to address these ...