What's new
20 January 2004
A Spanish version of the paper on obstacles to local economic development:
Qué es el desarrollo económico local? Por qué es tan difícil?
In: Enrique Dussel (coord.), Perspectivas y retos de la competitividad en
México. Centro de Desarrollo Empresarial UNAM-Canacintra. (PDF, 160 KB).
And a new article on Brazil:
15 September 2003
Another set of new papers...
21 July 2003
A couple of new papers are available, located at the
publications section of the mesopartner Website
15 May 2003
PACA has its own website now at www.paca-online.de.
27 January 2003
A revised paper:
Obstacles to cooperation in clusters, and how to overcome them.
Developing Alternatives, Vol. 9, No. 1 (PDF, 200 kb)
10 January 2003
I've addded an Entertainment section which so
far consists of a few funny photos and the rip-off e-mails I keep receiving from different places in
Western Africa.
30 December 2002
A new homepage for a new firm: Mesopartner.
And a new paper
(with Silene Seibel:)
Cluster, Value Chain and the Rise and Decline of Collective Action:
The Case of the Tile Industry in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Draft paper
(PDF, 66 KB)
11 October 2002
I've added a link to The Toolkit of Local Economic Development,
hostet at a BMZ/GTZ website. I'm the lead author of the Toolkit. I've also added a
collection of LED-related links.
02 September 2002
A new paper
(with Grant McKenzie and Wulf Noll:) Cluster Development in NRW and Scotland.
(PDF, 184 KB).
02 July 2002
A new paper is available: Current Challenges for Local Economic Development in South Africa: Experience from Mpumalanga.
Draft paper (PDF, 50 KB)
24 May 2002
A new paper is available: Paradoxes and Ironies of Locational Policy, and how to Deal with them.
Draft paper (PDF, 200 KB).
03 March 2002
You can now view my publications ordered by topics. Click on Profile.
04 February 2002
A new version, 3.1, of the manual on the Participatory Appraisal of Competitive Advantage
(PACA) methodology (PDF, 1.8 MB). Also, a Spanish
translation of Version 2.1 is available (PDF, 565 KB)
18 November 2001
Ein neues Papier zum Thema "Systemische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit" unter
dem Titel Was ist Meso?
05 November 2001
Há uma página que mostra todos os têxtos disponíveis em português e espanhol -
aqui
05 October 2001
There is a new paper on SME promotion at the local level
(in German) and a paper on
obstacles to co-operation in cluster and how to overcome them
(in English).
12 August 2001
A new paper on Systemic Competitiveness, in German, and the BSE paper in Spanish.
30 May 2001
The paper Strategien und Instrumente lokaler Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungsförderung
zur Schaffung von Einkommen und Beschäftigung für arme Bevölkerungsgruppen:
Land und Stadt, Cluster und Sozialkapital has now been published by GTZ as a PDF-file
08 May 2001
Now there's also a guestbook.
03 May 2001
The 1999 article, Altenburg/Meyer-Stamer, How to Promote Clusters: Policy Experiences from Latin America. World Development, Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 1693-1713, is now available as a PDF-File.
27 April 2001
Brief descriptions of PACA are now available in English,
German, and
Portuguese.
30 March 2001
I have adapted the PACA methodology for research on local innovation systems. This
version is called Rapid Appraisal of Local Innovation Systems.
(PDF-File)
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