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The role of databases in the impact assessment of the Hungarian development policy programmes

13/12/2009 | News

At the conference of Academy of Development Policy (FejlÅ‘déspolitikai Akadémia), an organiastion of the National Development Agency, Zsombor Cseres-Gergyely and Ágota Scharle presented their opinions about Hungarian databases used in the evaluation of government programmes.

BI expert Ágota Scharle gave a presentation on the exploitability of CANPI's (Central Administration of National Pension Insurance) database to assess the impact of programmes aiming to improve employability. She outlined a materialized research, based on this database, tried to detect the causes of decreasing proportion of new disability pensioners.

In his presentation, BI researcher Zsombor Cseres-Gergyely emphasized the necessity of creating a database using administrative sources to make properly detailed and precise evaluation of the impact of START Extra and START Plus Programmes. 

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