9 factors enabling local blue growth in
developing countries

Summary

This policy brief presents nine key institutional and infrastructure factors that promote
local blue growth from the use of marine resources in developing countries.

The policy brief is provided by the Swedish Agency of Marine and Water Management,
and is based on four background studies, all addressing the same question:

What is needed for marine resources to actually generate local blue growth.

Here, local blue growth refers to economic revenue and wellbeing in the local community from the sustainable use of ocean resources, such as fisheries, aquaculture, or tourism.

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