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Evaluating development effectiveness / George Keith Pitman, Osvaldo N. Feinstein, Gregory K. Ingram, editors.
Lippincott Library HG3881.5.W57 E926 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World Bank series on evaluation and development ; v. 7.
- World Bank series on evaluation and development ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Bank--Congresses.
- World Bank.
- Economic assistance--Developing countries--Evaluation--Congresses.
- Economic assistance.
- Technical assistance--Developing countries--Evaluation--Congresses.
- Technical assistance.
- Economic development projects--Developing countries--Evaluation--Congresses.
- Economic development projects.
- Evaluation.
- Developing countries.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2005]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Challenges in Evaluating Development Effectiveness
- 1 Evaluating Evaluation in a World of Multiple Goals, Interests, and Models / Frances Stewart 3
- 2 Challenges in Evaluating Development Effectiveness / Howard White 33
- 3 Macro-Level Evaluations and the Choice of Aid Modalities / Tony Killick 55
- Comments / Rob D. van den Berg 84
- Comments / David Goldsbrough 87
- Part 2 Evaluating the Performance of Development Agencies
- 4 Evaluating the Performance of Development Agencies: The Role of Meta-Evaluations / Frans L. Leeuw, Leslie J. Cooksy 95
- 5 Meta-Evaluations of NGO Experience: Results and Challenges / Stein-Erik Kruse 109
- Comments / Marco Ferroni 127
- 6 What Causes Aid Dependency? Evaluating Thirty Years of Swedish Bilateral Aid to Tanzania / Claes Lindahl, Julie Catterson 133
- 7 An Approach for Country Assistance Evaluations / John Johnson, Ruben Lamdany 153
- Comments / Colin Kirk 169
- Comments / Uma Lele 174
- 8 Evaluating the Performance of Development Agencies: Perspectives from NGO Experience / Chris Roche, Linda Kelly 177
- Part 3 Improving the Evaluation Evidence
- 9 Operational Reflections on Evaluating Development Programs / Laura Rawlings 193
- 10 Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness / Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer 205
- Comments / Robert Boruch 232
- Comments / Martin Ravallion 240
- 11 A System Dynamics Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation at the Country Level: An Application to the Evaluation of Malaria Control Programs in Bolivia / John Newman, Maria Alejandra Velasco, Leslie Martin, Alvino-Mario Fantini 249
- 12 Some Remarks on Randomization, Econometrics, and Data / Angus Deaton 263
- Part 4 Evaluating Sustainability
- 13 Institutional and Distributional Aspects of Sustainability in Community-Driven Development / Jean-Philippe Platteau 275
- 14 Bayesian Approaches to Assessing Sustainability: Are There Lessons to be Learned from Approaches to Health Care Evaluation? / Andrew H. Briggs 299
- Comments / Ruth Meinzen-Dick 320
- Comments / William Stevenson 323
- Part 5 Use of Evaluation Findings to Improve Development Effectiveness
- 15 Trends in the Evaluation of Efforts to Reduce Poverty / Sulley Gariba 331
- 16 The "Resource Restriction Condition" for Evaluation Effectiveness / Eduardo Wiesner 337
- 17 Use of Evaluation Findings to Improve Development Effectiveness: Panel Discussion / Robert Picciotto, Chair 347.
- Notes:
- "This book is based on papers prepared for and presented at the Fifth World Bank Conference on "Evaluating Development Effectiveness: Challenges and the Way Forward," held on July 15-16, 2003, in Washington DC. The conference was organized by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank ..."--Acknowledgements.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765802546
- 0765808102 (pbk.
- OCLC:
- 54024192
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