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December 02, 2011
In this four-minute clip from 2010, CGD senior fellow William Savedoff and former vice president Ruth Levine tell the story of how CGD’s Closing the Evaluation Gap initiative led to the creation of the International Institute for Impact Evaluation (3ie), a new institute for impact evaluation....
Sep
20
2011
12:00—1:30 PM
September 12, 2011
Center for Global Development presents a brownbag seminar on
World Bank Country-Level Engagement on Governance and Anticorruption:
An Evaluation of the 2007 Strategy and Implementation Plan
Featuring
Navin Girishankar
Independent Evaluation Group – World Bank
With discussant
William D....
Blog Post
September 08, 2011
This is a joint post with Michael Clemens.
Michael Clemens recently wrote me, saying that he gets asked this question a lot. I do, too. So I was interested when he brought my attention to a 2007 article in Forbes that discusses a number of companies that do use randomized studies. I wasn’t ...
ESSAYS
August 31, 2011
A new wave of development programs that explicitly use incentives to achieve their aims is under way.They are part of a trend, accelerating in recent years, to disburse development assistance against specific and measurable outputs or outcomes. With a proliferation of new ideas under names such as “...
Multimedia
August 15, 2011
Most people understand the personal risks associated with smoking, but surprisingly few understand its impact globally. Every year, more people die form tobacco related illnesses than from HIV/Aids, TB and malaria combined. Nevertheless, governments and international aid agencies have yet ot pay ser...