EDA RLFs: Planning, Local Structural Change, and Overall Performance

The Impact of EDA RLF Loans on Economic Restructuring

The Impact of Planning on EDA RLF Performance

EDA FLFs -- Performance Evaluation

TCRP: Costs of Sprawl--2000

The Costs and Benefits of Alternative Growth Patterns

EDA Public Works Program: Performance Evaluation

EDA Defense
Adjustment Program: Performance Evaluation

Explorations in Planning Theory

Hudson River Waterfront Corridor Housing Market Study

Transportation Planning in the New York Region {3 volumes}

The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis

The Impact of EDA RLF Loans on Economic Restructuring

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Economic Development Administration (EDA) Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) loans contribute to economic structural change in countries where they are made.  EDA RLF loans provide capital for investment in private-sector plants and equipment; through these investments, new permanent jobs are created and existing jobs are retained.  New or retained direct jobs, in turn, create indirect jobs in the regional (county) economy.  The sum of these is total jobs.  An increase in total jobs can improve an economy.  The study question:  Do these loans, through the creation of various types and levels of new employment, move areas to a more high-tech, diverse, or stabilized economy?  The answer:  On average, they do.