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Several Swedish municipalities have recently set up "Social Investment Funds". These can be seen as instruments for enhancing innovation and learning based on the municipalities own practice. Both the national financial control of the local government sector and the internal budgeting processes make it difficult to fund novel preventive measures with long-term and perhaps uncertain effects, such as early interventions for children with mental disorders. The "Social Investment Funds" provide routines for generating, scrutinizing, selecting, and evaluating innovative measures with investment features that involve risk. The design of the funds, in particular pay-backs when measures result in avoided costs, has spurred an enhanced interest in evaluations of impact and societal cost-benefit outcomes.

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