The Social Impact of Social Funds in Jamaica: A ‘Participatory Econometric’ Analysis of Targeting, Collective Action, and Participation in Community-Driven Development

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Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Participation in Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services (2009, background): “As Rao and Ibáñez (2005) emphasize in their study of the social fund program in Jamaica, in-depth data on participation is traded off with the size and representativeness of the sample.”
Who Is at the Wheel When Communities Drive Development? Evidence from the Philippines (2009, background): “As a result, subprojects financed tend not to address the most pressing need of the community (Rao & Ibáñez, 2005).”
Evaluation in the Practice of Development (2008, unknown): “For example, in one of the country studies, Rao and Ibanez (2005) tested the assumption that a SF works by local communities collectively proposing the sub-projects that they want; for a SF in Jamaica, the authors found that the process was often dominated by local elites.”