This article 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. Our article contributes to the debate by providing empirical evidence, which is scarce in the...

This paper uses a clustered randomised field experiment to explore the effects of a computer assisted learning (CAL) programme on student academic and non-academic outcomes in poor, rural public schools in China. Our results show that a remedial, game-based CAL programme in math held outside of...

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 impose stringent constraints on business growth. This paper studies the impact of a comprehensive business...

This review examined milk programmes affecting nutrition in developing countries through multiple pathways. Four programme typologies were identified: dairy production and agriculture, school-based, fortified milk and milk powder and blended foods. Evidence was rated by inference level with plus...

Recent years have seen a tremendous growth in impact evaluations of development policies, and an increasing trend towards considering rigorous evidence while making policy decisions. But there is much greater scope for incorporating results from impact evaluations into policy decisions, even in...

This study presents a cost-effectiveness analysis and a benefit-cost analysis (BCA) of water interventions in Bauchi State, Nigeria, with particular emphasis on pipeline and borehole (hand pump) water supply programmes. The cost-effectiveness ratios show that the borehole water programme is more...

Evidence from impact evaluations of community-based nutrition interventions addressing the question of 'what works' to reduce linear growth retardation (stunting) is growing but consensus is mixed. Whilst the number of such impact evaluations is increasing, especially by non-governmental...

The Malawi Social Cash Transfer (SCT) scheme is part of a wave of social protection programmes providing cash to poor households in order to reduce poverty and hunger and promote child education and health. This paper looks beyond the protective function of such programmes, analysing their...

This paper qualitatively evaluates the In-Service Training Project (INSET) of the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) in two pilot districts of Ghana. Particular attention is drawn to the ‘effectiveness’ of the project: the quality of co-operation among the various project...

This paper relates the Agence Française de Développement's experience with respect to impact evaluations. Our purpose is to assess the extent to which such studies, when designed before an actual programme implementation, can provide the type of summative evidence that donors often seek for...