Results chains are useful tools to clarify safety nets programs' objectives, verify the program internal logic, and guide the selection of indicators. Although the recent trend has been to focus mostly...
Fifteen years ago, Mexico, like most countries, had conducted a few scattered evaluations, but had not implemented systematic performance measurement. Political changes in the late 1990s generated an increased...
This paper develops a framework to assess organizational performance in the delivery of social safety nets. Specifically, it provides guidance to task teams and program managers for identifying indicators...
Policy makers and program managers are faced every day with major decisions resulting from insufficient funding, ongoing complaints about service delivery, unmet needs among different population groups...
This issue includes the following: Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor: understanding political incentives for providing public services by Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani; Evaluating the impact...
Unlike most development initiatives, conditional cash transfer programs recently introduced in the Latin America and the Caribbean region have been subject to rigorous evaluations of their effectiveness...