Search Results - subject:"DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS"

A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching

Maffioli, Alessandro; Heinrich, Carolyn; Vázquez, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

The use of microeconometric techniques to estimate the effects of development policies has become a common approach not only for scholars, but also for policy-makers engaged in designing, implementing and evaluating projects in different fields. Among these techniques, Propensity-Score Matching...

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Evaluating the Impact of Regional Development Programs

Winters, Paul; Rubio, Susana Sitja - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

The purpose of this guideline is to discuss the objectives and approaches of regional (subnational) development programs in order to provide guidance on issues related to evaluating the impact of these programs. Regional development programs are designed to improve the income-generating capacity...

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Improving the Quality of Data and Impact-Evaluation Studies in Developing Countries

Stecklov, Guy; Weinreb, Alex - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

While the science of program evaluation has come a tremendous distance in the past couple of decades, measurement error remains a serious concern and its implications are often poorly understood by both data collectors and data analysts. The primary aim here is to offer a type of...

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions

González, Mario; Maffioli, Alessandro; Salazar, Lina; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

The volume Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions is the Special Topic for the Development … Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009. The Special Topic provides an in-depth analysis of what we know about the effectiveness of … projects in one of the Bank¿s specific areas of intervention and identifies what we can do to improve the development …

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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects

Angelucci, Manuela; Maro, Vincenzo Di - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This note defines what spillover effects are, why it is important to measure them, and how to design an evaluation that will enable researchers to measure the impact of the program in the presence of spillover effects on subjects both eligible and ineligible for the program. Several practical...

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Improving the Quality of Data and Impact-Evaluation Studies in Developing Countries

Stecklov, Guy; Weinreb, Alex - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

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The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration: Evidence from Argentina

Ubfal, Diego; Maffioli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of research grants on the amount of collaboration, among scientific researchers in Argentina. We find a positive and significant impact of funding on collaboration, which is measured in terms of the number of co-authors for publications in peer-reviewed...

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Designing Impact Evaluations for Agricultural Projects

Winters, Paul; Salazar, Lina; Maffioli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

The purpose of this guideline is to provide suggestions on designing impact evaluations for agricultural projects, particularly projects that directly target farmers, and seek to improve agricultural production, productivity and profitability. Specific issues in evaluating agricultural projects...

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A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching

Heinrich, Carolyn; Maffioli, Alessandro; Vázquez, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This document provides a guide to the key aspects of implementing Propensity-Score Matching (PSM) methodology. It summarizes the basic conditions under which PSM can be used to estimate the impact of a program and the data required, presenting examples of PSM applications. It explains how the...

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South-South Cooperation and Knowledge Exchange : A perspective from civil society

Cruz, Anabel - In: Development Outreach 12 (2010) 2, pp. 25-26

South-South cooperation is not new. It has been around for several decades in the form of economic integration, cultural exchanges, and technical cooperation. Traditional North-South cooperation, however, with resources coming from the rich northern countries to the poor southern ones has been...

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