This paper discusses to what extent debt relief embedded in debt swaps linked to development can be helpful in reaching development goals such as the Millennium Development Goals. A range of historical and current international debt relief practices and proposals is assessed on the basis of...

This guidebook for evaluators and other evaluation stakeholders provides an introductory overview of a range of methods that have been selected for their actual and potential use in the field of international development evaluation. For each method, a detailed guidance note presents the method's...

This paper explores the accessibility of rural credit for the case of a rural bank in northern Nicaragua. Both the point of view of the potential client and the bank are addressed. It is illustrated that local networks of information and recommendation are important low-cost screening mechanisms...

We study how 22 donors allocate their bilateral aid among 147 recipient countries over the 1970- 2004 period to investigate whether changes in the international aid architecture?at the international and country level?have led to changes in behavior. We find that after the fall of the Berlin...

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Readers' guide -- Introduction -- Editor's bios -- Dealing with complexity in development evaluation : a framework -- Complexity in development evaluation : the framework of the book / Michael Bamberger, Jos Vaessen and Estelle Raimondo -- Towards more...

This resource discusses the use of machine learning (ML) techniques in evaluation research and their potential to automate the process of extracting and classifying large amounts of texts. ML methods can accelerate the process of extracting and classifying content in evaluation research provided...