Evaluating local economic and employment development
Subtitle: how to assess what works among programmes and policies.
Contributors: Nolan, Alistair.; Wong, Ging, 1947-; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Series: Local economic and employment development
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Economic development.; Economic policy.; Economic development projects -- Evaluation -- Congresses.; Public investments -- Evaluation -- Congresses.; New business enterprises -- Congresses.; Entrepreneurship -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Evaluating Local Economic and Employment Development is one of the few books to examine best practices in evaluating programmes for local and regional economic and employment development.  Appropriate for a non-technical readership, this book contains policy proposals for central and local governments aimed at improving the practice of evaluation, enlarging the evidence base for policy and developing a culture of evaluation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"This publication is the result of a collaborative endeavour. Alistair Nolan and Ging Wong were responsible for all substantive aspects of the conception and development of the November 2002 Vienna Conference, on which the contributions to this book are based. ...  Alistair Nolan has had overall responsibility for this publication, including editing most of the papers."--P. 4.
Foreword by Sergio Arzeni.