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  • Martin Ravallion

    (World Bank)

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Social experiments are not the only, or even the best, way of addressing the key policy questions faced in the fight against poverty according to Martin Ravallion, the director of the Word Bank's research department.

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Article provided by De Gruyter in its journal The Economists' Voice.

Volume (Year): 6 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 6

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Handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:6:y:2009:i:2:n:6

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Keywords: H43; O12; O22; experiments; evaluation; development;

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  1. Montgomery, Heather & Weiss, John, 2011. "Can Commercially-oriented Microfinance Help Meet the Millennium Development Goals? Evidence from Pakistan," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 87-109, January.
  2. William Easterly, 2008. "Can the West Save Africa?," NBER Working Papers 14363, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Paul Winters & Lina Salazar & Alessandro Maffioli, 2010. "Designing Impact Evaluations for Agricultural Projects," IDB Publications 8378, Inter-American Development Bank.
  4. Lorenzo Moreno & Larissa Campuzano & Dan Levy & Randall Blair, 2009. "Hacia el Cierre de la Brecha en la Evaluación: Lecciones sobre Tres Recientes Evaluaciones de Impacto de Programas Sociales en América Latina y el Caribe," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 6606, Mathematica Policy Research.
  5. Ton, Giel & Vellema, Sietze & DeRuyterDeWildt, Marieke, 2011. "Credible evidence on complex change processes: key challenges in impact evaluation on agricultural value chains," MPRA Paper 32027, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  6. Maredia, Mywish K., 2009. "Improving the proof: Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development," IFPRI discussion papers 929, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  7. Olofsgård, Anders, 2012. "The Politics of Aid Effectiveness: Why Better Tools can Make for Worse Outcomes," SITE Working Paper Series 16, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm School of Economics.

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