Despite the importance of knowing whether development programs achieve their objectives, impact evaluations remain rare in developing economies. This is unfortunate. With the growing use of results-based management by governments, determining whether goals have been attained and convincingly...

The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in 2012 in time for the preparation of the 2013 National Expenditure Program. The BUB process is...

Conceptual framework and methodological challenges / Deepa Narayan -- Evaluating empowerment : a framework with cases from Latin America / Patti Petesch, Catalina Smulovitz, and Michael Walton -- Women's empowerment as a variable in international development / Anju Malhotra and Sidney Ruth...