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RAND Europe Team Evaluates Programs and Audits Performance

RAND Europe's Evaluation and Performance Audit program helps decision- and policymakers improve the analysis underlying their choices. The research team works across a range of topical disciplines and uses mixed methods of inquiry involving both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

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Advancing Social Outcomes: Private Investors Could Be Part of the Solution — May 14, 2013

Under a Social Impact Bond, private investors — rather than the government — provide up-front funding for programs that tackle such challenges as recidivism or homelessness. If these programs succeed, the government pays some of the savings back to the investors.

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Put Peer Review Under Review — Apr 25, 2013

The progress of science and technology shows that good research does get funded—but it doesn't show that peer review is the best way to select it, writes Steven Wooding.

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Promoting Success: Using Data to Inform Decision Making — Mar 21, 2012

Many organizations that we have worked with indicate that this approach has helped improve reporting and communication both within and external to their organization, writes Sarah Hunter.

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Is Publicly Funded R&D Investment the Best Way Out of the European Financial Crisis? — Nov 29, 2011

Publicly funded R&D investment is a coherent policy to support long term economic growth. Our only note of caution is about how far and how fast that growth can be delivered because the evidence we have is out of date and skewed towards the experience of just one country, write Jonathan Grant and Jon Sussex.