Evaluation and poverty reduction : proceedings from a World Bank conference /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2000. |
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| Description: | xviii, 382 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4380331 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / James D. Wolfensohn
- Welcome Addresses / Jan Piercy and Elizabeth McAllister
- Synthesis and Overview / Osvaldo Feinstein and Detlev Puetz
- 1. Valuation and Evaluation / Partha Dasgupta
- 2. Evaluation in a World of Complexity and Information Failures / Joseph Stiglitz
- 3. Panel Discussion: Evaluation Perspectives of Poverty Reduction / Vinod Thomas, Alison Evans and Moise Mensah / [et al.]
- 4. Impact Evaluation: Concepts and Methods / Kene Ezemenari, Anders Rudqvist and Kalanidhi Subbarao
- Comments / Thomas Cook and James Heckman
- 5. Panel Discussion: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Evaluation / Timothy Marchant, Sarah Gavian and John Eriksson
- 6. Theory-Based Evaluation: Theories of Change for Poverty Reduction Programs / Carol H. Weiss
- 7. The Front-End Costs and Downstream Benefits of Participatory Evaluation / Edward T. Jackson
- Comments / Nicoletta Stame
- 8. Building Local Capacity for Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation / Rolf Sartorius
- Comments / David Marsden
- 9. Africa and Asia: Evaluation of the Poverty Alleviation Impact of Alternative Development Strategies and Adjustment Responses / Erik Thorbecke
- Comments / Richard Gerster
- 10. Lessons Learned from Evaluation of DFID's Aid Program / Andrew Shepherd
- Comments / Octavio Damiani
- 11. Evaluating Microfinance's Impact: Going Down Market / Monique Cohen
- Comments / Mohini Malhotra
- 12. Evaluating Targeted Versus Nontargeted Approaches to Poverty Reduction / Joachim von Braun, Mona Bishay and Sohail J. Malik
- 13. What Are Social Funds Really Telling Us? / Judith Tendler
- Comments / Soniya Carvalho
- 14. Economic Crises and Social Protection for the Poor: The Latin American Experience / Nora Lustig and Arianna Legovini
- Comments / Raghav Galha
- 15. Delivering Social Services: Lessons on Health, Nutrition, and Population / Susan Stout
- Comments / Margaret Goodman
- 16. Tackling Horizontal Inequalities / Frances Stewart
- Comments / Lawrence Haddad
- 17. Governance and Anticorruption: New Insights and Challenges / Daniel Kaufmann
- Comments / Anwar Shah
- 18. Panel Discussion: Combating Public Corruption / Jack Titsworth, Navin Girishankar and El Sayed Zaki
- 19. Nongovernmental Organizations and Evaluation: The BRAC Experience / Salehuddin Ahmed and Mohammad Rafi
- Comments / Ariel Fiszbein
- 20. Social Exclusion and Rural Underdevelopment / Adolfo Figueroa
- Comments / Aloysius Fernandes
- 21. Panel Discussion: Final Roundtable / Ravi Kanbur, Joachim von Braun and Nora Lustig
- 22. Concluding Remarks / Robert Picciotto.