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Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation : Experiences from International Development
Bamberger, Michael - 2017
some of the limitations of randomized trials and other quantitative impact evaluation methods; it also explores the …
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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects
Angelucci, Manuela - 2017
evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a … such that they explain the cause of these effects and whom they affect. Such an evaluation design is necessary to avoid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971852
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Increased Coverage of Maternal Health Services Among the Poor in Western Uganda in an Output-Based Aid Voucher Scheme
Obare, Francis - 2018
western and southwest Ugandan districts from April 2008 to March 2012. Using three years of data, this impact evaluation study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935854
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of Un Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
Dreher, Axel - 2017
The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968630
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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending
Moll, Peter G. - 2017
the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972006
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Impact Evaluation Helps Deliver Development Projects
Legovini, Arianna - 2017
Does research add value to aid? Specifically, does impact evaluation research help or hinder the delivery of … approved by the World Bank between 2005 and 2011. The analysis finds that the delivery of projects with impact evaluation is … project financing and the impact evaluation research needed to deliver development outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972305
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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence
Evans, David - 2017
Cash transfers have been demonstrated to improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty in various contexts. However, policy makers and others often express concern that poor households will use transfers to buy alcohol, tobacco, or other "temptation goods." The income effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973201
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2017
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973243
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Evaluating Aid for Trade : A Survey of Recent Studies
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
-country studies to direct aid-for-trade. More rigorous impact evaluation is an underutilized alternative, but situations of clinical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973616
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Enduring Impacts of Aid Quality on Job Choices : The Case of the 2004 Tsunami in Aceh
Nose, Manabu - 2017
After the tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, the recovery of fishing was limited while non-fishing sectors temporarily expanded. This paper shows that fishermen's ex-post labor supply responses continued to be constrained by the provision of low quality production assets. The average fishing...
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