Archive for May, 2011
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Original paper by Steven Teles, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, and Mark Schmitt, Roosevelt Institute. Published with support provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Found courtesy of @alb202
A version of this paper was published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in May 2011 and is available ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
by Andrew Warner, Independent Evaluation Group, June 2010. Available as pdf
Cost-benefit analysis used to be one of the World Bank?’s signature issues. It helped establish its reputation as the knowledge Bank and served to demonstrate its commitment to measuring results and ensuring accountability to taxpayers. It was the Bank’s answer ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
March 2011, DG INFORMATION SOCIETY AND MEDIA
[This manual]"... addresses the pressing need for more guidance in evaluating legislation, which will become an increasingly important part of the [EC] policy officers' work in the coming years, just as impact assessment is now. More focus on evaluation should be ...
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Monday, May 30th, 2011
Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Working Paper 17062
, NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, May 2011 pdf copy available
A mechanism experiment is "an experiment that does not test a policy, but one which tests a causal mechanism that underlies a policy"
ABSTRACT
Randomized controlled trials ...
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Sunday, May 29th, 2011
...says Gregory Treverton, in his Prospect article "What should we expect of our spies?" , June 2011
RD comment: How do you assess the performance of intelligence agencies, in the way they collect and make sense of the world around them? How do you explain their failure to predict some of ...
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Sunday, May 29th, 2011
Heart + Mind? Or Just Heart? Experiments in Aid Effectiveness (And a Contest!) by Dean Karlan 05/27/2011 | 4:00 pm Found courtesy of @poverty_action
RD comment: There is a killer assumption behind many of the efforts being made to measure aid effectiveness - that evidence of the effectiveness of specific aid ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
[from the Emergency Capacity Building Project website]
Published on 6 April 2011
The Department for International Development (DfID / UKAID) awarded a grant for the ECB Project to develop a new Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement. Lead by Dr. Vivien Walden from Oxfam, a team of ECB specialists from CRS, Save ...
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
Palenberg, M. (2011), Evaluation Working Papers. Bonn: Bundesministe-rium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung. Available as pdf.
Foreword:
Previous BMZ Evaluation Working Papers have focused on measuring impact. The present paper explores approaches for assessing efficiency. Efficiency is a powerful concept for decision making and ex-post assessments of development interventions but, nevertheless, often ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Marc Maxson, Irene Guijt, and others, 2010. GlobalGiving Foundation (supported by Rockefeller Foundation). Available as pdf. See also the related website.
["Real Book" = The Real Book is a central part of the culture of playing music where improvisation is essential. Real books are not for beginners: the reader interprets scant ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
A report produced for the Independent Commission for Aid Impact
by Roger Drew, January 2011. Available as pdf.
Summary
S1. This report examined central evaluations of DFID’s work published from 2006 to 2010. This included:
- 41 reports of the International Development Committee (IDC)
- Two Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer reviews
- 10 National Audit ...
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