Successful entrepreneurial activities are a function of human venture and environmental conditions, since the key to improving entrepreneurial perceptions and attitudes within society and within Higher Education (HE) institutions lies in education.The purpose of this paper is to address issues...

The paper considers how the systems of strategic planning are shaping in the regions of the Siberian Federal District. A comparative analysis of the strategies and long-term programs for the Siberian regions is presented. This allows identifying the key problems of regional strategic planning...

With one quarter of the world's children at risk, ensuring quality of early childhood development (ECD) programs on a global scale is more crucial than ever. This issue brief sheds light on the importance of equity in both access and quality in these ECD programs. Based on the latest research,...

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Reducción de la Pobreza y Protección Social del Diálogo Regional de Política para la 4a Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 11 y 12 de noviembre de 2002. El documento presenta Contigo, una nueva estrategia del gobierno mexicano para...

This journal article identifies how impact evaluations are encouraged and resisted in Latin America and the Caribbean. Drawing on case studies from work in El Salvador, Jamaica, and Mexico, the authors outline best practices for successfully designing and implementing a high quality impact...

In recent years an increasing amount of efforts has been devoted, both in the U.S. and within the E.U., to perform impact evaluation of geographically-targeted economic development (GTED) programs. The surging interest for the evaluation of GTED programs is challenged by the difficulty to assess...