Ubifrance, Dexia Crédit Local and Isted have pooled their resources and areas of expertise to produce a state of the art update on decentralisation via ALM/WLA. The three partners individually provide: useful data for French decision-makers abroad, expertise and financing for public service facilities and promotion of French know-how and closer links between local representatives throughout the world.

Foreword

Dexia, who contributed to launch the website www.almwla.org with Isted and Ubifrance, informed its partners not to continue its contribution under this form. His decision, effective from 01/01/2009, is driven by the fact that its services update, in a regular way, information on local authorities organisation in the EU- 27, under a form of books and papers available on the website www.dexia creditlocal.com.
At the request of Isted, Dexia has accepted to leave on the site almwla former sheets on the EU-27, as an archive to preserve its basic role as global comparative tool.

ALM/WLA focuses on how local government functions and provides local representatives, decision-makers, university leaders and companies… with keys to help them decode the local authority market, via country-by-country analyses based on comparable data regrouped under the following headings: