NEED FOR EIA: Environment and development are not exclusive of one another but are complimentary and dependent on each other. Environment is where we live and development is what we do to improve that living. “Development”, the word is very contradictory. It has both negative and positive...

The Player-Authors Project was a yearlong research project funded by the National Science Foundation. The project used empirical methods to investigate how contemporary user-generated content (“UGC”) platforms and practices related to United States copyright law. The motivation for the...

Between March 2003 and September 2006 the FOODMIGROSURE project, contract number QLKCT2002- 2390, was carried out by 9 European project partners with the intention to develop an 'into-food' migration model tool which should enable prediction of mass transfer of constituents from plastics food...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of post-conflict aid at the project level and aims to identify post-conflict situations as a window of opportunity for project success. The Independent Evaluation Group dataset provides extensive information on the characteristics of World Bank projects...

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out-of-sample predictive performance of empirical models...