Evaluation reports
- Aid effectiveness: a survey of the recent rmpirical literature
- Tsidi Tsikata / Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment, IMF, 1998
- The preponderance of evidence from the empirical literature on aid effectiveness suggests that development aid has not had a significant impact on growth in recipient countries. However there is some evidence that aid has had positive...
- External Evaluation of IMF Surveillance
- T. Bernes; J. Crow / International Monetary Fund, 1999
- Independent report of the policy impact of IMF monitoring reports on the economic policy of its member countries. Based on detailed review of 12 countries (Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, S...
- Does Swedish debt relief contribute to economic growth? Does economic growth reach the poor? Does Sweden influence policies in partner countries? Have donors supported the "right" reforms?
- H. White / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
- Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during t...
- When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality
- Jakob Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. The welfare of all parties might be improved by tied project aid and b...
- Measuring Aid Flows: a New Approach
- C. Chang; E. Fernandez-Arias; L. Serven / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years, as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments, the fundamental issue arises of wh...
- What are European donors doing to meet poverty reduction targets? What are the conditions for success?
- A. Cox / Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender...
- How evaluation can assist the Fund to carry out its mandate and responsibilities
- International Monetary Fund, 2000
- Provides an outline of the existing evaluation structure in the Fund and a list of evaluations undertaken since 1996 discusses the principles which should guide effective independent evaluation provide...
- Assessing Aid—What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
- Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- Summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness. Official Development Assistance has declined by one-third in real terms in the 1990s. There are a number of reasons for this, but one factor has been a sen...
- Better aid allocation could raise an extra 50 million people out of poverty
- P. Collier; D. Dollar / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations. Paper uses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relations...
- Does Economic Analysis Improve the Quality of Foreign Assistance?
- K. Deininger; L. Squire; S. Basu / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- The World Bank undertakes large expenditures on economic analysis and advice for its member developing countries. What is the impact of this economic and sector work on the quality of World Bank lending? It would be useful to know whe...
- External Evaluation of IMF Surveillance
- T. Bernes; J. Crow / International Monetary Fund, 1999
- Independent report of the policy impact of IMF monitoring reports on the economic policy of its member countries. Based on detailed review of 12 countries (Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, S...
- Does Swedish debt relief contribute to economic growth? Does economic growth reach the poor? Does Sweden influence policies in partner countries? Have donors supported the "right" reforms?
- H. White / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
- Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during t...
- When is foreign aid policy credible? : aid dependence and conditionality
- Jakob Svensson / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. The welfare of all parties might be improved by tied project aid and b...
- Measuring Aid Flows: a New Approach
- C. Chang; E. Fernandez-Arias; L. Serven / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years, as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments, the fundamental issue arises of wh...
- What are European donors doing to meet poverty reduction targets? What are the conditions for success?
- A. Cox / Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1999
- Survey of European donors suggests that development agencies are increasingly seeking to involve partner governments and the poor themselves in translating poverty reduction aims into real benefits. Participatory approaches and gender...
- How evaluation can assist the Fund to carry out its mandate and responsibilities
- International Monetary Fund, 2000
- Provides an outline of the existing evaluation structure in the Fund and a list of evaluations undertaken since 1996 discusses the principles which should guide effective independent evaluation provide...
- Assessing Aid—What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
- Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- Summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness. Official Development Assistance has declined by one-third in real terms in the 1990s. There are a number of reasons for this, but one factor has been a sen...
- Better aid allocation could raise an extra 50 million people out of poverty
- P. Collier; D. Dollar / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- Paper derives a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compares it with actual aid allocations. Paper uses new World Bank ratings of twenty different aspects of national policy to establish the current relations...
- Does Economic Analysis Improve the Quality of Foreign Assistance?
- K. Deininger; L. Squire; S. Basu / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1998
- The World Bank undertakes large expenditures on economic analysis and advice for its member developing countries. What is the impact of this economic and sector work on the quality of World Bank lending? It would be useful to know whe...
- Three Cs
- Six evaluation studies set up to explore and assess the role played by the Maastricht Treaty precepts, coordination, complementarity and coherence (3Cs), in the European Union's development co-operation policies and operations; and determine how far these have been applied in practice and with what impact.
