Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners

By J. Baker. 2000

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Guides for value chain development: a comparative review (2015, background): “In general, users are expected to already understand the basics of monitoring and evaluation in a VCD context or apply readily available monitoring and evaluation guides designed for project assessment (e.g. Baker, 2000; Grun, 2006).”
Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers (2010, background): “Qualitative and participatory methods provide critical insights into beneficiaries' perspectives, the value of programs to beneficiaries, the processes that may have affected outcomes, and a deeper interpretation of results observed in quantitative analysis (Baker 2000).”
For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets (2008, background): “This subsection draws heavily on Baker (2000); Blomquist (2003); and Prennushi, Rubio, and 6.”
Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania (2008, background): “However, tracking the impacts to producers and consumers of new varieties in a given setting often requires careful analyses of the changes that can be directly attributed to the intervention itself (Baker, 2000).”
Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, background): “…the data show that annual aid to the poorest twenty percent of countries of the world comprise only 1.69% to 5.25% of total global 5See “Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners” by Judy L. Baker (2000), Washington D.C.: LCSPR/PRMPO, The World Bank.”
The impact of smallholder irrigation on household welfare: The case of Tugela Ferry irrigation scheme in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2014, background): “Therefore, it is expected that irrigation participants would have had far less consumption expenditure in the absence of the irrigation project (Baker, 2000), and sample selection bias arises due to this self-selection.”
The Impact of Agricultural Technologies on Poverty and Vulnerability of Smallholders in Ethiopia: A Panel Data Analysis (2020, background): “In the simplest case, given the current condition, vulnerability measures the probability of falling below the poverty line in a given time horizon (Baker 2000).”
An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA (2004, unknown): “…political purpose the ethics of withholding benefits from “equally deserving” households.1 The toolkit of alternative designs for the evaluation of social programs includes a variety of non-experimental methods (e.g., Shadish, Cook and Campbell, 2001; Heckman, LaLonde and Smith, 1999; Baker, 2000).”
Does the Use of Mobile Phones by Smallholder Maize Farmers Affect Productivity in Ghana? (2018, background): “In the time past, Africa was described as the “black hole of informational capitalism” (Castells, 1998). However, in recent times, this view is no longer tenable as the use of mobile technology in Africa is observed to be on the ascendancy. In fact, Africa is observed to be the fastest growing regio”
Money for Nothing? A Call for Empirical Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Investments (2006, background): “Baker [24] provides a nontechnical general overview of these methods.”
Impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program: the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social (2004, unknown): “See also Baker (2000).”