This paper is organized in following headings: can we trust shoestring evaluations?; evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions?; effects of Colombia’s social protection...
Can project evaluation methods be used to evaluate programs: complex interventions involving multiple activities? A program evaluation cannot be based simply on separate evaluations of its components if...
Can project evaluation methods be used to evaluate programs: complex interventions involving multiple activities? A program evaluation cannot be based simply on separate evaluations of its components if...
This issue includes the following: growth and risk: methodology and micro evidence; by Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning, and Bill Kinsey. Dollars, debt, and international financial institutions: dedollarizing...
How exposure to risk affects economic growth is a key issue in development. This article quantifies both the ex ante and ex post effects of risk using long-running panel data for rural households in Zimbabwe...
Empirical work in labor economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers...
This paper reviews the recent debate on the role of aid in providing finance, in changing policies in recipient countries, and in transmitting knowledge. It argues that where economic reforms are recent...
The econometric analysis presented here agrees with qualitative information collected during the survey. Conversations with survey respondents indicated that one of the major benefits of the structural...
This book contains an in-depth analysis of the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe, based on a unique panel data set collected in 1993-5. Zimbabwe is one of the most advanced African economies Zimbabwe has...
The theoretical literature on investment stresses the role of expectations, but in empirical work data on expectations are rarely available. This paper draws on survey data for manufacturing firms in Kenya...
Macro policy has changed the real exchange rates for African countries dramatically in the 1990s. In this paper the possible impact of macroeconomic policy on firms in the manufacturing sector is considered...
Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about economic policy in the aftermath of civil war. A sample of conclusions follows. Civil...
This is a report on the Zimbabwe industrial surveys conducted as part of the Regional Programme on Enterprise Development (RPED). The report is based on the first and second rounds of data collection...
Rapid export growth has been the hallmark of the fast-growing economies in East Asia. More recently, countries like Chile, China, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Indonesia, Thailand, and Turkey have shown...