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Title

Evaluating development effectiveness / George Keith Pitman, Osvaldo N. Feinstein, Gregory K. Ingram, editors.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Pitman, George Keith, 1945-
• Feinstein, Osvaldo Néstor.
• Ingram, Gregory K.
• World Bank. Operations Evaluation Department.

Description

xx, 369 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"This work includes contributions from a wide range of distinguished academics and practitioners. The authors discuss the difficulty of defining development objectives to be evaluated; the relation between approaches to aid itself and approaches to aid evaluation; problems of evaluating the performance of development agencies; and the relative merits of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed evaluation techniques for judging performance. Several contributors look at how the quality of evaluative evidence can be improved, with particular attention to the potential of randomized experimental approaches. Sustainability and risk, which are critical factors in development effectiveness, are addressed in chapters on institutional aspects of sustainability and the application of Bayesian approaches to identify and mitigate critical risks. Practitioners give insights on building and satisfying demand for evaluation in developing countries and on the use of evaluation findings to improve decision making on development policies and programs." "This volume offers useful insights into methods for evaluating the effectiveness of development and assessing the performance of development aid and aid agencies."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

World Bank series on evaluation and development ; v. 7

Uniform Title

World Bank series on evaluation and development ; v. 7.

Subjects

• Economic assistance > Developing countries > Evaluation > Congresses
• Economic development projects > Developing countries > Evaluation > Congresses
• Technical assistance > Developing countries > Evaluation > Congresses
• World Bank Congresses

Note

• "This book is based on papers prepared for and presented at the Fifth World Bank Conference on "Evaluating Development Effectiveness: Challenges and the Way Forward," held on July 15-16, 2003, in Washington, DC. The conference was organized by the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the World Bank ..."--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / James D. Wolfensohn -- Overview / Gregory K. Ingram -- 1. Evaluating evaluation in a world of multiple goals, interests, and models / Frances Stewart -- 2. Challenges in evaluating development effectiveness / Howard White -- 3. Macro-level evaluations and the choice of aid modalities / Tony Killick -- Comments / Rob D. van den Berg -- Comments / David Goldsbrough -- 4. Evaluating the performance of development agencies : the role of meta-evaluations / Frans L. Leeuw and Leslie J. Cooksy -- 5. Meta-evaluations of NGO experience : results and challenges / Stein-Erik Kruse -- Comments / Marco Ferroni -- 6. What causes aid dependency? : evaluating thirty years of Swedish bilateral aid to Tanzania / Claes Lindahl and Julie Catterson -- 7. An approach for country assistance evaluations / John Johnson and Ruben Lamdany -- Comments / Colin Kirk -- Comments / Uma Lele -- 8. Evaluating the performance of development agencies : perspectives from NGO experience / Chris Roche and Linda Kelly -- 9. Operational reflections on evaluating development programs / Laura Rawlings -- 10. Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness / Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer -- Comments / Robert Boruch -- Comments / Martin Ravallion -- 11. A system dynamics approach to monitoring and evaluation at the country level : an application to the evaluation of malaria control programs in Bolivia / John Newman, Maria Alejandra Velasco, Leslie Martin and Alvino-Mario Fantini -- 12. Some remarks on randomization, econometrics, and data / Angus Deaton -- 13. Institutional and distributional aspects of sustainability in community-driven development / Jean-Philippe Platteau -- 14. Bayesian approaches to assessing sustainability : are there lessons to be learned from approaches to health care evaluation? / Andrew H. Briggs -- Comments / Ruth Meinzen-Dick -- Comments / William Stevenson -- 15. Trends in the evaluation of efforts to reduce poverty / Sulley Gariba -- 16. The "resource restriction condition" for evaluation effectiveness / Eduardo Wiesner -- 17. Use of evaluation findings to improve development effectiveness : panel discussion / Robert Picciotto.

ISBN

• 0765802546 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0765808102 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004041242

OCLC

• ocm54024192
• SCSB-5109808

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Columbia University Libraries