Local economic development: new generations of actors, policies and instruments for Africa

By A. (Bert) Helmsing. 2003

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Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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Citations in the corpus

• Pro-Poor local economic development in South Africa: The role of pro-poor tourism (2006, background): “…responses to globalization, entrepreneurial and human capital interventions, business support and property-led development (Clarke & Gaile, 1998), Helmsing (2001a; 2001b; 2003a; 2003b) stresses that in the South the focus of LED tends to be on issues relating to community-based development,…”
• Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana (2009, background): “…of local economic development in Africa, Helmsing argues that ‘markets do not emerge spontaneously . . . [and that] the success of the innovating peasant . . . or small entrepreneur depends on the presence, effectiveness and efficiency of ‘‘related and supporting’’ services’ (Helmsing, 2003: 68).”
• Local economic development in Africa: Global context and research directions (2010, background): “Until recently, people living in many areas of the developing world had little say in or control over economic activity in their territory; now they are beginning to adopt a more proactive stance with respect to their own future (Helmsing, 2002, 2003).”