Bilbao - Photo Credit: Chiara

Update   and   Thank  you!

LED Forum 2015 was a smashing success, and a big thank you to everyone on the LED team and to our incredible speakers for working so hard to pull it off. Participants covered a lot of political, social and economic ground in topics ranging across geography and time, delving into the economic impacts of the British political system to the complicated nature of the "resource curse" in northwest Africa.

We'll get audio and video of the day up as soon as possible for those who couldn't join us in person or have our somewhat academic sense of "fun." You can check the photos on the Programme page.

Thank you again,
LED Forum 2015 Team


Welcome   to   LED   Forum   2015 

Every year marks a watershed moment for someone - for the students of the London School of Economics and Political Science Msc in Local Economic Development, 2015 is that year.

2014 saw nation-states falter under the onslaught of disease, financial ruin and home-grown separatists. Inequality went from a buzzword to a movement and the definition of "sustainable development" changed with it. The coming year will see states, regions, international organizations and the private sector struggle to cope with these changes and redefine their respective places within the new economic geography.

2015 is here, and it is big. It will be a year in which the changing dynamics between the public and private sectors leaves the pages of pop economics books and becomes the stuff of international agreement. It will be a year in which the paradigms underpinning the fundamental goals and methods of accomplishing sustainable development shifts - for good or for ill.

In the eighth installment of the Local Economic Development forum, professors, professionals, politicians and policy wonks will discuss and debate the changing landscape of economic development in a post-2015 world and how we - as students of development - can best operate in it.

March 7, 9 a.m. New Academic Building, LSE


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