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Evaluation in the Practice of Development / Ravallion, Martin
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Ravallion, Martin
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beneficiaries.
- Counterfactual.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Education.
- Impact assessment.
- Impact evaluation.
- Infrastructure projects.
- Intervention.
- Learning.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Poverty Monitoring and Analysis.
- Poverty outcomes.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Programs.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Science Education.
- Scientific Research and Science Parks.
- Targeting.
- Tertiary Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Beneficiaries.
- Counterfactual.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Education.
- Impact assessment.
- Impact evaluation.
- Infrastructure projects.
- Intervention.
- Learning.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Poverty Monitoring and Analysis.
- Poverty outcomes.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Programs.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Science Education.
- Scientific Research and Science Parks.
- Targeting.
- Tertiary Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (35 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2008
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Knowledge about development effectiveness is constrained by two factors. First, the project staff in governments and international agencies who decide how much to invest in research on specific interventions are often not well informed about the returns to rigorous evaluation and (even when they are) cannot be expected to take full account of the external benefits to others from new knowledge. This leads to under-investment in evaluative research. Second, while standard methods of impact evaluation are useful, they often leave many questions about development effectiveness unanswered. The paper proposes ten steps for making evaluations more relevant to the needs of practitioners. It is argued that more attention needs to be given to identifying policy-relevant questions (including the case for intervention); that a broader approach should be taken to the problems of internal validity; and that the problems of external validity (including scaling up) merit more attention.
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