Evaluation reports
- Review of performance of the International Development Association by the World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department (OED)
- C Gwin / Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2002
- This study examines the last seven years of IDA’s work, assessing its relevance (did it do the right things?) and its efficacy and efficiency (did it do things right?). It finds that the period under review has been one of...
- Lessons from the Kosovo aid effort
- Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, 2001
- Proceedings from the conference Kosovo and the Changing Face of Humanitarian Action that took place in Uppsala on May 8, 2001. The conference was organised by the Collegium for Development Studies in co-operation with Globkom, the Swe...
- Policy and implementation process of EC food aid
- European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2000
- This reports on an evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, and food aid management. Summary of main findings: the Regulation stipulates the policy of the European Commission as far as it concerns its foo...
- Governance and the returns to investment : an empirical investigation
- Jonathan Isham; Daniel Kaufmann; Lant H. Pritchett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- There is a strong statistical link between a country's civil liberties and the performance of its aid financed government investment projects. But type of political regime (whether authoritarian or democratic) and the status of more p...
- How to produce reliable information on the impact of the Agency's D/HR initiatives
- D. Poate; R. Riddell; N. Chapman; T. Curran / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
- Support for democracy and human rights (D/HR) has played an increasingly important role in Sida's co-operation with developing countries ever since the early 1990s. But there is a lack of information on the impact of initiatives. This...
- "..but did my programme improve development conditions?"
- United Nations Development Programme, 2000
- Assesses current challenges and obstacles facing UNDP in achieving development effectiveness, and looks particularly at UNDP's adoption of a results-based management (RBM) system. The report: assesses how RBM is ...
- Uncertainty of Aid Inflows and the Aid-Growth Relationship
- R. Lensink; O. Morrissey / Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 1999
- Argues that it is not the level of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measur...
- Aid and Reform in Africa
- S Devarajan; D. Dollar; T. Holmgren / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999
- Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced ...
- Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Governance Programming
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 1999
- Review of experience of projects aimed at developing governance and policy-forming capacity in Africa (particularly World Bank experience). Finds that governance failures in SSA are often attributable in whole or in part to: ...
- Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness
- Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
- Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade. But this progress cannot be sustained unless (a) the implementation of a large unfinished agenda of adjustment is accel...
- Lessons from the Kosovo aid effort
- Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, 2001
- Proceedings from the conference Kosovo and the Changing Face of Humanitarian Action that took place in Uppsala on May 8, 2001. The conference was organised by the Collegium for Development Studies in co-operation with Globkom, the Swe...
- Policy and implementation process of EC food aid
- European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2000
- This reports on an evaluation of EC food aid, food security policy, and food aid management. Summary of main findings: the Regulation stipulates the policy of the European Commission as far as it concerns its foo...
- Governance and the returns to investment : an empirical investigation
- Jonathan Isham; Daniel Kaufmann; Lant H. Pritchett / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- There is a strong statistical link between a country's civil liberties and the performance of its aid financed government investment projects. But type of political regime (whether authoritarian or democratic) and the status of more p...
- How to produce reliable information on the impact of the Agency's D/HR initiatives
- D. Poate; R. Riddell; N. Chapman; T. Curran / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
- Support for democracy and human rights (D/HR) has played an increasingly important role in Sida's co-operation with developing countries ever since the early 1990s. But there is a lack of information on the impact of initiatives. This...
- "..but did my programme improve development conditions?"
- United Nations Development Programme, 2000
- Assesses current challenges and obstacles facing UNDP in achieving development effectiveness, and looks particularly at UNDP's adoption of a results-based management (RBM) system. The report: assesses how RBM is ...
- Uncertainty of Aid Inflows and the Aid-Growth Relationship
- R. Lensink; O. Morrissey / Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 1999
- Argues that it is not the level of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measur...
- Aid and Reform in Africa
- S Devarajan; D. Dollar; T. Holmgren / Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999
- Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced ...
- Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Governance Programming
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 1999
- Review of experience of projects aimed at developing governance and policy-forming capacity in Africa (particularly World Bank experience). Finds that governance failures in SSA are often attributable in whole or in part to: ...
- Ghana Country Assistance Review: A study in Development Effectiveness
- Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
- Bank assistance was generally effective in helping Ghana make considerable economic progress over the past decade. But this progress cannot be sustained unless (a) the implementation of a large unfinished agenda of adjustment is accel...
- 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...
- 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.
