Arbeitspapier

Evaluating aid impact

The ultimate measure of aid effectiveness is how aid affects the lives of poor people in developing countries. The huge literature on aid’s macroeconomic impact has remarkably little to say on this topic, and less still in terms of practical advice to government officials and aid administrators on how to improve development effectiveness. But there is an expanding toolbox of approaches to impact evaluation at the field level which can answer both questions of whether aid works, and, properly applied, why it works (or not, as the case may be). This paper lays out these approaches, describing some of their uses by official development agencies. I advocate a theory-based approach to impact evaluation design, as this is most likely to yield policy insights. Academics need to engage in these real world issues and debates if their work is to help alleviate the plight of the world’s poor.

ISBN
978-92-9230-028-9
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2007/75

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Project Analysis
Thema
aid effectiveness
impact evaluation
quasi-experimental design
results agenda
Entwicklungshilfe
Makroökonomischer Einfluss
Entwicklung

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
White, Howard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • White, Howard
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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