Evaluating Decentralized Policies: A Method to Compare the Performance of Economic Development Programmes Across Different Regions or States

Evaluation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 101-124

  Bondonio, Daniele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comparative evaluation; decentralized policies; economic development programmes; longitudinal data; propensity score

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937382856     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358902002008001738     Document Type: Article

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