Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...

Official development assistance and impact assessment : theoretical and practical frameworks / Viktor Jakupec and Max Kelly -- Conceptualizing impact assessment in foreign aid / Max Kelly -- Competing development paradigms and alternative evaluations of aid effectiveness : challenging the...

The World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) assess the conduciveness of a country's policy and institutional framework to poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and the effective use of development assistance. It plays an important role in the country performance ratings...