The literature on development effectiveness has traditionally focused on the ex-post analysis of projects. While this is the appropriate method of measuring benefits, a previous step must be taken as a forerunner to good ex-post evaluation: the measurement of the efficiency in the execution of...

Do quality at entry assessments enhance the delivery of development projects? In this paper we take advantage of approval and execution systems in place at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to examine whether projects that have higher quality at entry-captured through grading scores...

India is seen as a key developmental partner to Nepal with the latter being one of the first receipts of development aid from India. Development aid from India to Nepal has not only been associated with creation of infrastructure in the country but also with human capital development and...

Despite a broad agreement on the importance and necessity of an integrated approach and some meaningful development of methods and tools for an integrated approach, comprehensive, practical and concrete guidance on how to plan, implement and evaluate an integrated approachbased project (IABP) is...

In recent years, scholars have paid more attention to an integrated approach, which entails identifying and addressing cross-cutting issues beyond an initiative's policy field, domain or sector, as a means of enhancing the performance of development projects. However, few studies offer a...