文件与报告库

Cost-efficiency of rural sanitation promotion : activity-based costing and experimental evidence from Tanzania (英语)

Creating a market for outcomes : shopping for solutions (英语)

This paper suggests that interactions between development agencies and recipient governments are mostly about inputs deemed (but not known) to contribute to improvements in living standards in recipient...

The effect of a land titling programme on households’ access to credit (英语)

This paper assesses the effects of property titling on households’ access to and use of credit by focusing on household responses to an exogenous change in their formal ownership status. We isolate the...

Mitigating seasonal hunger with microfinance in Bangladesh : how does a flexible program compare with the regular ones? (英语)

Microfinance institutions, often criticized for inadequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty, have begun to introduce innovative programs designed to tackle both concerns. One such program...

Who cares about development outcomes? : market failures and the role of the evaluation function (英语)

Development agencies expend large amounts of money and manpower ostensibly to achieve development outcomes which improve living conditions in developing countries. If development agencies cared only about...

The poverty impacts of cash and in-kind transfers : experimental evidence from rural Mexico (英语)

The unique experimental design of the food support program (programa de apoyo alimentario) is used to analyze in-kind and cash transfers in the poor rural areas of southern states of Mexico. The intent...

Stimulating managerial capital in emerging markets : the impact of business training for young entrepreneurs (英语)

Identifying the determinants of entrepreneurship is an important research and policy goal, especially in emerging market economies where lack of capital and supporting infrastructure often imposes stringent...

Improving technology adoption in agriculture through extension services : evidence from Uruguay (英语)

This paper evaluates whether cost-sharing public interventions are successful in promoting agricultural technology uptake by small and medium farmers, and whether these changes can affect yields. The paper...

Knowledgeable bankers? The demand for research in World Bank operations (英语)

Development impact calls for knowledgeable development practitioners. How then do the operational staff of the largest development agency value and use its own research? Is there an incentive to learn...

Using administrative data to evaluate municipal reforms : an evaluation of the impact of Minas Facil Expresso (英语)

This study uses administrative data to evaluate the impact of Minas Facil Expresso, a program in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, which expanded a business start-up simplification program to more remote...

The effects of school-based management in the Philippines : an initial assessment using administrative data (英语)

This paper estimates the effect of school-based management on student performance in the Philippines using the administrative dataset of all public schools in 23 school districts over a 3-year period...

Can skill diversification improve welfare in rural areas? : evidence from Bhutan (英语)

This paper examines the impact of the three month training component of the Rural Skills Development Project (RSDP) in Bhutan. This project was designed to diversify income sources of rural households...

Impact evaluation of school feeding programs in Lao PDR (英语)

Despite the popularity and widespread implementation of school feeding programs, evidence of their impact on school participation and nutritional status is mixed. In this study the authors evaluate feeding...

Behind the scenes : experience managing and conducting large impact evaluations in Colombia (英语)

As more resources are being allocated to impact evaluation (IE) in the context of development programs, the need to map out the utilization and influence of evaluations has been increasingly highlighted...

When does rigorous impact evaluation make a difference? : the case of the millennium villages (英语)

When is the rigorous impact evaluation of development projects a luxury, and when a necessity? The authors study one high-profile case: the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an experimental and intensive...