Making Every Dollar Count discusses the process of using Expected Return, which helps channel investment dollars in the most promising direction by improving the way in which programs choose strategies and program officers make grants

by Stephan Goetz, Steven Deller and Tom Harris -
July, 2007 - A national network of university researchers and extension specialists is
working together to develop a collection of educational materials on targeted regional
economic development (TRED). Building on the notion of Michael Porter's cluster
development a collection of tools and educational processes is outlined.

Economic Development of Areas discusses tools for Local governments and related institutions to advance in economic terms.

This course published by MIT OpenCourseWare features a complete set of lecture notes. Course Description: "This course provides a graduate-level introduction to the field of international trade. It examines the theory of international trade and foreign investment with applications in commercial policy. Topics include gains from trade, Ricardian models of technological differences, Heckscher-Ohlin models of factor endowment differences, intermediate input trade, wage inequality, imperfect competi more...

This course provided by MIT OCW is an introduction to the theory of international trade and finance with applications to current policy issues. In this course we will cover the basic tools to understand what determines the flow of goods across countries, i.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of savings and investments from one country to another, i.e. international finance. We will also cover applications to a number of topics of current interest, including the debate on globali more...

This online full course published by MIT OCW includes syllabus, readings and lecture notes. Introduction: "Professor Blanchard will discuss shocks, labor markets and unemployment, and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE models). Professor Lorenzoni will cover demand shocks, macroeconomic effects of news (with or without nominal rigidities), investment with credit constraints, and liquidity with its aggregate effects. "

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This online full course has been produced by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, member of the OCW Consortium. This course describes how economic theory is linked to economic evaluation techniques like cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis and to introduce students to many concepts that are specific to economic evaluation. Introduces students to the many varieties of economic evaluation to establish a common terminology. Discusses cost-benefit with a demonstration of how more...

In the past month of November took place the Kick-off Meeting of the eFibre Project – Lifelong Learning in Textile Fibres for Textile Professionals. The partners of this European project, funded by the Leonardo Da Vinci Program, are CITEVE (project coordinator), Tearfil and ATP from Portugal, AITEX from Spain and CENTEXBEL from Belgium.

The development of a product starts with the selection of the raw material, being this precept particularly important in products of higher added value beca more...

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