Towards a Plurality of Methods in Project Evaluation: A Contextualised Approach to Understanding Impact Trajectories and Efficacy
Michael Woolcock
Global Development Institute Working Paper Series from GDI, The University of Manchester
Abstract:
Understanding the efficacy of development projects requires not only a plausible counterfactual, but an appropriate match between the shape of impact trajectory over time and the deployment of a corresponding array of research tools capable of empirically discerning such a trajectory. At present, however, the development community knows very little, other than by implicit assumption, about the expected shape of the impact trajectory from any given sector or project type, and as such is prone to routinely making attribution errors. Randomisation per se does not solve this problem. The sources and manifestations of these problems are considered, along with some constructive suggestions for responding to them.
Date: 2009
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ppm
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (17)
Downloads: (external link)
http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/pu ... wpi/bwpi-wp-7309.pdf (application/pdf)
Related works:
Journal Article: Toward a plurality of methods in project evaluation: a contextualised approach to understanding impact trajectories and efficacy (2009) ![Downloads](/downloads_econpapers.gif)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bwp:bwppap:7309
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in Global Development Institute Working Paper Series from GDI, The University of Manchester Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Rowena Harding (gdi@manchester.ac.uk).