Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Albert O. Hirschman -- Preface -- 1 Introduction & Overview -- 2 Internal & External Motivation: Beyond Homo Economicus -- 3 The Indirect Approach -- 4 Indirect Approaches: Intellectual History -- 5 Autonomy-Respecting Development Assistance -- 6 Knowledge-Based...

Since its birth in 1944, the World Bank has had a strong focus on development projects. Yet, it did not have a project evaluation unit until the early 1970s. An early attempt to conceptualize project appraisal had been made in the 1960s by Albert Hirschman, whose undertaking raised high...