Lesson drawing, or learning from past policies or programs, can improve current or future policies or programs and, thereby, lead to policy success. This requires various types of evaluations that identify and highlight different causal relationships in the system. However, the literature on...

A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an extensive literature, the extent to which it has used the policy innovation perspective – entailing policy...

Why and how the regulation of emerging technologies occurs is not clear in the literature. In this study, we adapt the multiple streams framework – often used for explaining agenda-setting and policy adoption – to examine the phenomenon. We hypothesize how technological change affects...

Effective climate change adaptation and mitigation require a transnational response. The failure of countries to reach an international agreement on specific strategies to avoid “dangerous climate change” has renewed interest in the geopolitics of climate change. Bosnjakovic (2012) has...

Using primary survey data collected in two sub-districts of Gujarat, India, on a unique program that trains rural women with low human capital to repair village water handpumps, we examine the effect of skills training on their socio-economic outcomes. We find that participating in the training...

A commonly applied policy to India's ongoing depletion of groundwater is feeder separation. Introduced in Gujarat as the Jyotigram Yojana (JGY) scheme, it provides a separate and rationed electricity supply to farmers and an unrationed power supply to non‐agricultural users. JGY is claimed to...

This paper posits that the sequencing of topics in introductory economics texts plays a subtle, but potentially key, role in influencing the effective delivery of principles courses. The key criterion for effectiveness is the attainment of economic literacy. The effective role of sequencing is...

1. Evaluation, Economics, and Sustainable Development -- 2. The Spectrum of Impact Evaluations -- 3. The Picture from Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 4. Objectives-Based Evaluation for Accountability and Learning -- 5. Conclusion and Future Directions