les cahiers du mecas
Volume 4, Numéro 1, Pages 68-84
2008-12-31

The Role Of Local Economic Development Agencies (leda) On Territorial Development And The Whole Macroeconomic Goals Achievement

Authors : Maliki Samir Baha - Eddine . Metaiche M. Amine . Tahir Metaiche Fatima . Ziani Tahar .

Abstract

Although several years of economic recession, because of low oil prices, and civil violence, Algeria is now experiencing a continuation of economic growth and a successful stabilization the crude oil prices are helping the government to accelerate further to absorb several challenges and obstructs that facing the economic development process such as environmental degradation, poverty, unemployment, economic stagnation ect... Recently LED has become a widely practised development strategy in many developed countries and especially by using LEDAs. Several local administrations have established comprehensive LED programmes including the establishment of LED units and the pursuit of a range of developmental strategies. In this modest paper we will try to give an introduction to LED, its objectives, and short-term procedures to create successfully LED Agencies; and then we will clear up the significant role played by LED Agencies in territorial development, making a sustainable economic growth and the whole macroeconomic goals achievement

Keywords

Local economic development (LED), Local economic development Agencies (LEDA, Economic growth in MENA region, Territorial development, rural development…