Far too often we associate leadership with power, status and authority. But with this narrow outlook, we often tend to forget about the leaders closest to us: local leaders. These local leaders, the ...

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 ...