Journal of Development Effectiveness

2009 - 2025

Current editor(s): Howard White

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Volume 4, issue 4, 2012

Cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analyses of some water interventions in Nigeria: the case of Bauchi State pp. 497-514

Eberechukwu Uneze, Ibrahim Tajudeen and Ola Iweala

From research to policy: using evidence from impact evaluations to inform development policy pp. 515-536

Iqbal Dhaliwal and Caitlin Tulloch

Benefits trickling away: the health impact of extending access to piped water and sanitation in urban Yemen pp. 537-565

Stephan Klasen, Tobias Lechtenfeld, Kristina Meier and Johannes Rieckmann

Impact evaluation in field settings: experience from a complex NGO programme in Ethiopia pp. 566-577

Bridget Fenn

Volume 4, issue 3, 2012

Why do we care about evidence synthesis? An introduction to the special issue on systematic reviews pp. 351-358

Howard White and Hugh Waddington

How to do a good systematic review of effects in international development: a tool kit pp. 359-387

Hugh Waddington, Howard White, Birte Snilstveit, Jorge Garcia Hombrados, Martina Vojtkova, Philip Davies, Ami Bhavsar, John Eyers, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Mark Petticrew, Jeffrey C. Valentine and Peter Tugwell

Systematic reviews: from ‘bare bones’ reviews to policy relevance pp. 388-408

Birte Snilstveit

Narrative approaches to systematic review and synthesis of evidence for international development policy and practice pp. 409-429

Birte Snilstveit, Sandy Oliver and Martina Vojtkova

Purity or pragmatism? Reflecting on the use of systematic review methodology in development pp. 430-444

Ruth Stewart, Carina van Rooyen and Thea de Wet

The benefits and challenges of using systematic reviews in international development research pp. 445-455

Richard Mallett, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Rachel Slater and Maren Duvendack

Assessing ‘what works’ in international development: meta-analysis for sophisticated dummies pp. 456-471

Maren Duvendack, Jorge Garcia Hombrados, Richard Palmer-Jones and Hugh Waddington

The impact of daycare programmes on child health, nutrition and development in developing countries: a systematic review pp. 472-496

Jef Leroy, Paola Gadsden and Maite Guijarro

Volume 4, issue 2, 2012

Cost-effectiveness analysis of education and health interventions in developing countries pp. 189-213

Patrick McEwan

Can skill diversification improve welfare in rural areas? Evidence from Bhutan pp. 214-234

Natalie Chun and Makiko Watanabe

Poverty reduction impact of food aid in rural Ethiopia pp. 235-256

Mulubrhan Amare and Solomon Asfaw

Can ultra-poverty be sustainably improved? Evidence from BRAC in Bangladesh pp. 257-276

Wameq Raza, Narayan C. Das and Farzana A. Misha

The effects of school-based management in the Philippines: an initial assessment using administrative data pp. 277-295

Nidhi Khattri, Cristina Ling and Shreyasi Jha

Japan International Co-operation Agency's In-Service Training Project: innovative or d�jà-vu? A qualitative evaluation of the In-Service Training Project in Ghana pp. 296-313

Georgios Tsopanakis

Impact evaluations: a tool for accountability? Lessons from experience at Agence Française de D�veloppement pp. 314-327

Tanguy Bernard, Jocelyne Delarue and Jean-David Naudet

Impact assessment as knowledge generation and learning: operational challenges in faith-based non-governmental organisations pp. 328-349

Paul N. Wilson

Volume 4, issue 1, 2012

Evaluating the impact of cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an introduction to the special issue pp. 1-8

Benjamin Davis, Marie Gaarder, Sudhanshu Handa and Jenn Yablonski

The impact of the Kenya Cash Transfer Program for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on household spending pp. 9-37

The Kenya CT-OVC Evaluation Team

The impact of Kenya's Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on human capital pp. 38-49

The Kenya CT-OVC Evaluation Team

From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme pp. 50-77

Katia Covarrubias, Benjamin Davis and Paul Winters

Targeting effectiveness of social cash transfer programmes in three African countries pp. 78-108

Sudhanshu Handa, Carolyn Huang, Nicola Hypher, Clarissa Teixeira, Fabio V. Soares and Benjamin Davis

A simulation impact evaluation of rural income transfers in Malawi and Ghana pp. 109-129

Mateusz Filipski and J. Edward Taylor

Conditional versus unconditional cash: a commentary pp. 130-133

Marie Gaarder

Beneath the ‘methods debate’ in impact assessment: baring assumptions of a mixed methods impact assessment in Vietnam pp. 134-150

Paul Shaffer

Community-based intervention packages for reducing maternal morbidity and mortality and improving neonatal outcomes-super-1 pp. 151-187

Zohra S. Lassi, Batool A. Haider and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Volume 3, issue 4, 2011

The impacts of school management reforms in Madagascar: do the impacts vary by teacher type? pp. 435-469

Paul Glewwe and Eugenie Maiga

Behind the scenes: experience managing and conducting large impact evaluations in Colombia pp. 470-501

Bertha Briceño, Laura Cuesta and Orazio Attanasio

Walking the talk: the need for a trial registry for development interventions pp. 502-519

Ole Rasmussen, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Thomas Andersen

Impact evaluation of school feeding programmes in Lao People's Democratic Republic pp. 520-542

Alison Buttenheim, Harold Alderman and Jed Friedman

How can sanitary infrastructures reduce child malnutrition and health inequalities? Evidence from Guatemala pp. 543-566

Thomas G. Poder and Jie He

Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda pp. 567-588

Gunther Bensch, Jochen Kluve and Jörg Peters

Reply to Santosh Mehrotra's comment on ‘Evaluation of governance: a study of the Government of India's outcome budget’ pp. 589-591

Anand P. Gupta

Volume 3, issue 3, 2011

When does rigorous impact evaluation make a difference? The case of the Millennium Villages pp. 305-339

Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes

What prevents child diarrhoea? The impacts of water supply, toilets, and hand-washing in rural India pp. 340-370

Victoria Fan and Ajay Mahal

Implementing school-based management in Indonesia: impact and lessons learned pp. 371-388

Mark O. Heyward, Robert A. Cannon and Sarjono

The full road to impact: the experience of the Global Environment Facility Fourth Overall Performance Study pp. 389-413

Rob D. van den Berg and David Todd

Promoting evidence-based policy: the role of incentives pp. 414-419

Lyn Squire

Conducting influential impact evaluations in China: the experience of the Rural Education Action Project pp. 420-430

Matthew Boswell, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang, Chengfang Liu, Renfu Luo and Yaojiang Shi

A comment on Anand P. Gupta's ‘Evaluation of governance: a study of the Government of India's outcome budget’ pp. 431-433

Santosh Mehrotra

Volume 3, issue 2, 2011

Evaluating the long-term impact of anti-poverty interventions in Bangladesh: an overview pp. 153-174

Agnes Quisumbing, Bob Baulch and Neha Kumar

Understanding the context of institutions and policy processes for selected anti-poverty interventions in Bangladesh pp. 175-192

Akhter Ahmed, Mubina Khondkar and Agnes Quisumbing

Access, adoption, and diffusion: understanding the long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh pp. 193-219

Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing

Does social capital build women's assets? The long-term impacts of group-based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh pp. 220-242

Agnes Quisumbing and Neha Kumar

The medium-term impact of the primary education stipend in rural Bangladesh pp. 243-262

Bob Baulch

Exploring the long-term impact of development interventions within life-history narratives in rural Bangladesh pp. 263-280

Peter Davis

Sampling and survey design of the Bangladesh long-term impact study pp. 281-296

Md. Zahidul Hassan, Wahid Quabili, Mohammad Zobair, Bob Baulch and Agnes Quisumbing

Comment on: Abou-Ali, H., El-Azony, H., El-Laithy, H., Haughton, J. and Khandker, S., 2010. Evaluating the impact of Egyptian Social Fund for Development programmes. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2 (4), 521-555 pp. 297-299

Maren Duvendack and Richard Palmer-Jones

Reply to comment by Duvendack and Palmer-Jones pp. 300-301

Jonathan Haughton

Much ado about something: response to Haughton's reply to Duvendack and Palmer-Jones pp. 302-303

Maren Duvendack and Richard Palmer-Jones

Volume 3, issue 1, 2011

Impact evaluation of infrastructure interventions pp. 1-8

Henrik Hansen, Ole Winckler Andersen and Howard White

Experience from a phased mixed-methods approach to impact evaluation of Danida support to rural transport infrastructure in Nicaragua pp. 9-27

Eva Broegaard, Ted Freeman and Carsten Schwensen

Evaluating the employment-generating impact of rural roads in Nicaragua pp. 28-43

John Rand

Assessing the ex ante economic impacts of transportation infrastructure policies in Brazil pp. 44-61

Eduardo Haddad, Fernando Perobelli, Edson Domingues and Mauricio Aguiar

Impact of water supply and sanitation assistance on human welfare in rural Pakistan pp. 62-102

Ganesh Rauniyar, Aniceto Orbeta and Guntur Sugiyarto

Impact evaluation of infrastructure investments: the experience of the Millennium Challenge Corporation pp. 103-130

Ariel BenYishay and Rebecca Tunstall

Achieving high-quality impact evaluation design through mixed methods: the case of infrastructure pp. 131-144

Howard White

The use of evidence in Mexico: experiences and challenges pp. 145-151

Miguel Szekely