This paper examines the dynamic causal relationship between financial development and poverty reduction in Tanzania. The study attempts to answer one critical question: does financial development Granger-cause poverty reduction in Tanzania? In other words, does the financial development that has...

In response to the economic and social crises in 2001-2002, the Buenos Aires City Government opted for a cash transfer programme, the Ciudadanía Porteña: Con Todo Derecho, or CPP, in 2005. This case study looks at three impact evaluations of the programme and how they were used. The...

In this study, the authors evaluate the impact of the Frontiers Prevention Project (FPP), a community-based strategy for HIV prevention amongst female sex workers (FSW) and men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ecuador. The FPP impact evaluation methodology consisted of a community trial with...

Knowledge about the concept and the application of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) and cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) can help policy makers to formulate and implement programmes that improve the lives of the citizens, especially the poor. This paper presents an example of a BCA and CEA of...

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 and does it translate into useful knowledge? A new survey reveals that the bulk of the World...

One of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programmes, Bolsa Família reaches 48.7 million people in Brazil with subsidies that are tied to health- and education-related conditions. In this case study, Gala Díaz Langou and Paula Forteza look at how the dissemination of evaluation...

This article exploits a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an intensive, short-term inservice teacher training programme on the performance of English teachers in Beijing migrant schools and their students. The results show no significant impacts of teacher training on either...

This article reports on a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing teacher attendance in developing countries. After a comprehensive search process, nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Pooled effects sizes of included studies were estimated...

Would investing to reduce stunting reap economic benefits that outweigh costs? We investigate this question by conducting a cost-benefit analysis for a large-scale integrated nutrition programme to reduce stunting in Indonesia, using actual rather than stylised data on costs. The gains are...