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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 development projects? This paper analyzes the question by constructing a new data set of 100 impact evaluations and 1,135 projects approved by the World Bank between 2005 and 2011. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972305
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Predicting World Bank Project Outcome Ratings
Geli, Patricia - 2017
A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out-of-sample predictive performance of empirical models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972899
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What Explains Aid Project Success in Post-Conflict Situations?
Chauvet, Lisa - 2017
This paper investigates the effectiveness of post-conflict aid at the project level and aims to identify post-conflict situations as a window of opportunity for project success. The Independent Evaluation Group dataset provides extensive information on the characteristics of World Bank projects...
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Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
Mu, Ren - 2016
While most economists assume that aid is fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The authors study recipient government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World Bank-financed project. They estimate the impact of a rural road rehabilitation project in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747844
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When Instability Increases the Effectiveness of Aid Projects
Guillaumont, Patrick - 2016
The authors assess the effect of economic instability on the success of projects funded by the World Bank using the outcome of the projects, which is a notation of their overall success determined by the Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. It has been argued in macroeconomic studies that aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747949
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Synergies in Child Nutrition : Interactions of Food Security, Health and Environment, and Child Care
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017
This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic environment -- on their own and interactively are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968191
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The Nexus of Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability : A Study of Trade-Offs and Synergies
Čihák, Martin - 2017
Policy makers and regulators have devoted much effort to reforms aimed at improving financial stability in response to lessons from the 2007-09 crisis. At the same time, much effort has also been directed to promoting greater financial inclusion as an enabler of equal opportunity. To some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968747
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Does the 2015 Peace Accord in Mali Reflect the Priorities of Households and Local Leaders?
Lendorfer, Julia - 2017
Using unique household level data collected in northern Mali in August and September 2015, this paper explores whether the content of the 2015 Peace Accord reflects the concerns and priorities of the citizens, local leaders, and refugees, or whether it is an exclusive agreement between elites...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968700
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Impact Evaluation of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Interventions
Gaarder, Marie - 2017
The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world's population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting development challenges. To deliver better results on the ground, it is necessary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974236
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Peacekeeping and Development in Fragile States : Micro-Level Evidence from Liberia
Mvukiyehe, Eric - 2018
Using surveys and administrative data from post-war Liberia, the hypothesis that peacekeeping deployments build peace … hypothesis reflects official thinking about how peacekeeping works via "peacebuilding." A quasi-experiment was created by … similarly likely to receive peacekeeping bases. The analysis finds nothing to support claims that deployments increase local …
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