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Can Economic Development Programs Be Evaluated?
Bartik, Timothy J.; Bingham, Richard D. – 1996
The question of whether economic development programs can be evaluated seems simple, but the answer is not simple because of the nature of evaluation. Determining a program's effectiveness requires the evaluator to distinguish changes due to the program from changes due to nonprogram factors. The evaluator must focus on outcomes caused by the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs