This brief highlights recent analyses from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) on trends in undernutrition over the years and among income groups. The analysis also identifies key drivers of high...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled An impact evaluation of education, health, and water supply investments by the Bolivian social investment fund, conducted...
Household survey data point to declining poverty over the past decade, despite some difficulties with data from three provinces. Indeed, Pakistan has turned economic growth into poverty reduction. In Punjab...
Reaching agreement on a reasonable performance target is a challenge, with costs associated with getting it wrong. Attention in the literature has focused on the potential negative effects of gaming or...
This paper complements the World Bank's recent report on poverty by providing some additional information on inequality. In contrast to reports that analyze measures of inequality of income or wealth (such...
This paper complements the World Bank's recent report on poverty by providing some additional information on inequality. In contrast to reports that analyze measures of inequality of income or wealth (such...
This note broadly discusses how operational staff of a ministry or a development agency can work more effectively on what has become to be known as the results agenda. Focusing on the operational perspective...
To benchmark is to compare performance against a standard. As part of an effort to improve the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the policy cycle, benchmarking can be useful in three...
This book argues that Peru faces an unprecedented opportunity to become the next success story in Latin America. In the coming five years, policy making could put the country on a development path similar...
This book argues that Peru faces an unprecedented opportunity to become the next success story in Latin America. In the coming five years, policy making could put the country on a development path similar...
Evaluating social policies: principles and U.S. experience. Using randomized control designs in evaluating social sector programs in developing countries. AIDS and African development. Privatization: lessons...
Seven case studies - from Bolivia, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Taiwan (China), and Turkey - demonstrate the feasibility of conducting rigorous impact evaluations in developing countries using...
This paper presents information on labor market activity from household surveys undertaken in Cote d'Ivoire and Peru by the Living Standards Unit of the World Bank and the statistics departments of the...