PP4A4E Cities and the Economy

Measuring Economic Impacts

Understanding the economic returns of investments
  • Dr. Savvas Verdis
  • Module 02 | 3.3b
  • Study time: 28 mins
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Course overview
This session introduces you to different ways of measuring urban economic impacts.
  • Video time: 7 mins
  • Reading time: 16 mins
  • Task time: 5 mins

Session outline

 The following LearnWorlds session is part of the PP4A3E course, Cities and the Economy. It introduces readers to the key aspects of impact measurement for city related projects, programmes and investments.  The learnings of this session will be tested through a case study in the City of Kampala, Uganda, which you can read here.

This session is delivered in the following parts:  
  • Building the case for measuring impacts in the real economy 
  • Introduction to Economic Impact Analysis using net value added and jobs created 
  • Introduction to Cost Benefit Analysis and the problem of bias in our measurements  

Dr Savvas Verdis