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Does Participation Improve Project Performance : Establishing Causality with Subjective Data
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
Development practitioners are coming to a consensus that participation by the intended beneficiaries improves project performance. But is there convincing evidence that this is true? Skeptics have three objections: 1) quot;Participation is not objective -- project rankings are subjective; 2) this...
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Poverty comparisons : a guide to concepts and methods
Ravallion, Martin - 1992 - 1. print
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The mystery of the vanishing benefits : Ms Speedy Analyst's introduction to evaluation
Ravallion, Martin - 1999
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The mystery of the vanishing benefits : an introduction to impact evaluation
Ravallion, Martin - In: The World Bank economic review 15 (2001) 1, pp. 115-140
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The Mystery of the Vanishing Benefits : An Introduction to Impact Evaluation
Ravallion, Martin - 2001
This article provides an introduction to the concepts and methods of impact evaluation. The author provides an … character's on-the-job training in evaluation. Ms. Speedy analyst is an economist in the Ministry of Finance in the fictional … learns the strengths and weaknesses of the main methods of ex post impact evaluation …
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Can we trust shoestering evaluations?
Ravallion, Martin - In: The World Bank economic review 28 (2014) 3, pp. 413-431
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Hidden impact? : Household saving in response to a poor-area development project
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - In: Journal of public economics 89 (2005) 11/12, pp. 2183-2204
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Designing impact evaluations: different perspectives
Chambers, Robert; Karlan, Dean; Ravallion, Martin; … - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) - 2009
Debates on approaches to impact evaluation design appear to have reached an impasse in recent years. An objective of … the international conference, Perspectives on Impact Evaluation, March 29th to April 2nd, Cairo, organized by 3ie, NONIE … a plenary in which experts from different perspectives were asked how they would approach the evaluation of three …
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Should the Randomistas Rule?
Ravallion, Martin - In: The Economists' Voice 6 (2009) 2, pp. 6-6
Social experiments are not the only, or even the best, way of addressing the key policy questions faced in the fight against poverty according to Martin Ravallion, the director of the Word Bank's research department.
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Evaluating anti-poverty programs
Ravallion, Martin - 2005
"The author critically reviews the methods available for the ex-post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households, or locations. The discussion covers both experimental and non-experimental methods (including propensity-score matching,...
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