As part of an ongoing partnership with UN Habitat in providing expert support and advice for local economic development (LED) around the globe, EPI developed the following six tools for LED: (1) Services and Support – i3 Ideas, Impact, Implementation; (2) Situation Assessment: Assets, Economic Base and Trend Analysis (a practical guide to enable planners to harness best available information and conduct basic analysis to establish a fact-based context and framework); (3) Analysis of agglomeration economies and diseconomies (looking at the driving factors that affect agglomeration); (4) Benchmarking and best practices for strategy directions (outlining strategic planning principles to develop key sectors in order to best use cities’ asset bases); (5) Good Ideas – what’s working: why, when, where and how (providing insight and direction based on current projects in cities around the world); (6) Multiplier effects (examining how city governments can harness economic linkages to maximize benefits through multipliers in jobs, spending and earning).