Local Economic Development
CEIDIR is a centre for regional and local development which main objetive is to contribute to generate and exchange information all around the world on this field through different internet based services and activities. In March 2004 we are FOUR YEARS old on the world-wide web. All our inputs and the products of them are absolutely FREE!
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CEIDIR is the first Internet-based Centre for Regional and Local Development around the world focusing on lagging and deprived regions and their people. CEIDIR is divided in two working areas:
LED Group is in charge of the publication of our specialised electronic review on development issues and of generating valuable information for people interested in LED topics.
Network 2000 is in charge of organising electronic activities and services which main purpose is the difussion and exchange of ideas and information related with the LED practice around the world.
Main Areas of
Interest
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Empowerment and
capacity building
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Globalisation
and local response
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Institutions and
local economic development
Have a look to phrases written or said by well-known researchers and practitioners.
ON ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
'Enterprise development concerns business start-up, business growth and development of main business practice... At the local level, national and sectoral issues come together and are reinforced by the specific local institutions that support or inhibit enterprise. These determine how fertile the local environment is, both to new formation and to the development of firms once they have been founded.' R. Bennet and A. McCoshen
'Enterprise development is as much a social as a technological or financial phenomenon.' R.Sweeney
'... the poor are enourmous, untapped reservoirs of initiative and entrepreneurship, but their energies are often held in check by poverty, misrule or conflict.' Kofi Annan
ON ECONOMIC CRISIS
'Crisis is a productive state provided you do not associate it with catastrophe' Max Frisch
'Depression economics ...is the study of situations where there is a free lunch, if we can only figure out how to get our hands on it, because there are unemployed resources that could be put to work. In 1930 John Maynard Keynes wrote that "we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand".The true scarcity ... is not of resources... but of understanding'. Paul Krugman
ON INSTITUTIONS
'Societies that adopt the formal rules of another society will have very different performance characteristics than the original country because both, the informal norms and the enforcement characteristics, will be different. The implication is that transfering the formal political and economic rules of successful Western market economies to Third World countries and Eastern European economies is not sufficient condition for good economic performance' Douglass C. North
'It is adaptative rather than allocative efficiency which should be the guide to policy. Allocative efficiency is a static concept with a given set of institutions; the key to continuing good economic performance is a flexible institutional matrix that will adjust in the context of evolving technological and demographic changes as well as shocks of the system' Douglass C. North
LED Group:
CEIDIR's Review. Electronic publication on local economic development issues.
Institutional study. The institutional framework of every place is a determinant for development.
Social sector study. Social attitudes towards development and economic change as well as the civil society capacity for real and effective participation, are significant elements to be considered for the design and implementation of LED policies.
Bibliographic recommendations. CEIDIR recommends different recent publications on development topics.
Network 2000:
Events. Promote your development events with us without cost and get informed about what is happening in different places around the world.
Tradinmex. Information about how to buy Mexican products.
Opening business in Mexico. Ask us about goverment guidelines and requirements to open a business in any region of Mexico.
Links to LED institutions. Links to the Internet sites of leading development institutions.
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Ceidir 2000-2004
Last revision: 28/02/2004
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