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Application Development

PERC has a proven track record of developing economic "dashboards" for monitoring both long- and short-term changes in the economic well being of families, communities, and small businesses exposed to exogenous shocks (e.g. hurricane, plant closing).

Developing financial vulnerability indices to help communities adjust business portfolio to minimize losses from exogenous shock. PERC's disaster recovery dashboard has already been adopted by the World Bank for use in emerging markets.

Developing and testing community economic development program metrics that rely upon granular data sets and that provide near real-time measures of program efficacy. This enables development agencies to identify unmet needs, assess the relative efficacy of varying programs, and more efficiently allocate scarce resources across competing program needs. This also increases transparency and accountability for funders.