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Various theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs throughout the world. Using data from the largest randomized control trial ever conducted on entrepreneurship training, we examine the validity of such motivations and find that...
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Evaluating the impact of transport infrastructure meets a major challenge since rail lines are not randomly located. We use the natural experiment offered by the opening and progressive extension of the Regional Express Rail (RER) between 1970 and 2000 in the Paris metropolitan region, and in...
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We consider the problem of implementing optimal city size distributions. The planner would like to design a policy under which an optimum is achieved in the long-run from any initial state with neither direct population control nor knowledge of preferences. We show that the planner can lead an...
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that differentiate and integrate its formulation and implementation processes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is … journals. Findings – The literature casts marketing strategy formulation and implementation in the context of strategic … that clearly differentiate, but interrelate, marketing strategy formulation and implementation processes and recast the …
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This paper examines employment-focused interventions within the US disability system. Our review illustrates the challenges of developing and implementing these types of initiatives, despite substantial policy interest. Our findings indicate that none of the demonstrations we reviewed have the...
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interest to monitoring and evaluation departments, development finance institutions, international financial institutions … can contribute to facilitating the evaluation process, simplifying the communication of findings and results, and ease …, differences in how these are used today, and the implications this has for evaluation methods and approaches. The work will be of …
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effectiveness, equity and efficiency of adaptation interventions. Robust monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is an essential part of …
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A common problem of welfare states consists of a high unemployment risk for low-skilled workers. This is often attributed to a lack of jobs for the low-skilled, but it may as well be caused by a lack of incentives to work. Low-skilled workers are easily substitutable and therefore have little...
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