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This evaluation aims to assess the extent to which the European Commission’s (EC) assistance has been relevant …, efficient, effective and sustainable in producing the expected impacts in the education sector. Moreover, the evaluation also … Governments’ priorities and activities, and with international legal commitments in education. The evaluation covers basic and …
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The overall purpose of this evaluation is to ensure accountability for the use of allocated resources as well as to … promote a lesson-learning culture in EC development cooperation. The main specific objectives of the evaluation were: •to …
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This Joint Country Evaluation of the development cooperation of Denmark, Sweden and the European Union with Bangladesh … strategy and delivery of the Evaluation Partners in Bangladesh, and secondly informing future decision-making through lessons … learnt. The main focus of the evaluation is the development cooperation extended during the 2007-2013 period, including both …
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This note proposes the continuous treatment approach as a valuable alternative to propensity score matching for evaluating economic effects of merger and acquisitions (M&A). This framework allows to consider the variation in treatment intensities explicitly, and it does not call for the...
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There is a growing interest in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of programs: complex … interventions involving multiple activities. In general a program evaluation cannot be based on separate evaluations of its …
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evaluation is useful for designing programs that achieve some optimality criteria, such as maximizing impact for a given cost … to evaluate a program ex ante. We illustrate the application of ex ante evaluation methods using data from the PROGRESA …
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In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...
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Using microdata from the second wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, we investigate the accuracy of property values estimated by homeowners - so called “self-assessed” house prices - and explore the drivers of possible deviations of these prices from official hedonic house...
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This note proposes the continuous treatment approach as a valuable alternative to propensity score matching for evaluating economic effects of merger and acquisitions (M&As). This framework allows to consider the variation in treatment intensities explicitly, and it does not call for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058507
This paper investigates the usefulness of commercial corporate governance ratings from a market perspective. For two large European economies, Germany and the UK, we document a positive association of ISS governance ratings with firm value. However, when we decompose the rating into its two...
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