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Product Description: The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the organization to changing circumstances and address concerns among external stakeholders about the role of aid in development. The reforms were motivated largely by widespread recognition that the Bank's development programs were excessively driven by a culture of lending, with insufficient attention to client needs and the quality of results, which are crucial to development effectiveness...read more
By Independent Evaluation Group (corporate author)

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9780821397152, titled "The Matrix System at Work: An Evaluation of the World Bank’s Organizational Effectiveness" | World Bank, July 30, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The 1997 Bank reforms that introduced the matrix management concept aimed to adapt the organization to changing circumstances and address concerns among external stakeholders about the role of aid in development.

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Product Description: “ O objetivo deste livro é fornecer um guia acessível, abrangente e claro para a avaliação de impacto.Omaterial, desde a motivação da avaliação de impacto até as vantagens de diferentes metodologias,cálculos de poder estatístico e de custos, é explicado de forma muito clara e a cobertura éimpressionante...read more

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9781464800887 | World Bank, May 26, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: “ O objetivo deste livro é fornecer um guia acessível, abrangente e claro para a avaliação de impacto.
9780821385418 | Pap/psc edition (World Bank, December 13, 2010), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development.

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Product Description: In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodological and analytical challenges...read more

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9780262019651 | Mit Pr, August 30, 2013, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodological and analytical challenges.

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Product Description: The recent economic, social, and political turbulence has adversely affected both developed and developing countries. Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence: Dealing with Crises That Endanger Our Future uses these traumatic years as the backdrop to observe and reflect on the consequences for development in general and evaluation in particular...read more
By Marie-helene Boily (editor), Frederic R. Martin (editor) and Ray C. Rist (editor)

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9780821398791 | World Bank, April 19, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The recent economic, social, and political turbulence has adversely affected both developed and developing countries.

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Product Description: Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations assess changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention. Both innovations in statistical methods and the demand for evaluations that can measure such development results are increasing...read more
By The World Bank Group (corporate author)

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9780821397176 | World Bank, March 12, 2013, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes.

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Product Description: First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought...read more

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9780415682350 | Routledge, June 30, 2011, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought.

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9780415684972 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 28, 2012), cover price $46.50 | About this edition: First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought.

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Product Description: This review provides an independent assessment of the World Bank Group's performance in achieving key development objectives, with a special focus on support for environmentally sustainable development consistent with economic growth and poverty reduction...read more
By World Bank (corporate author)

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9780821385777 | World Bank, March 15, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This review provides an independent assessment of the World Bank Group's performance in achieving key development objectives, with a special focus on support for environmentally sustainable development consistent with economic growth and poverty reduction.

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Product Description: This years Independent Evaluation of IFC's Development Results (IEDR) review the finding related to 174 IFC-Supported investment operations that reached early operating maturity during 2005-07. It also includes preliminary results for IFC's advisory services, based on a pilot review of 293 operations completed during 2004-06...read more
By World Bank (editor)

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9780821375938 | World Bank, July 17, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This years Independent Evaluation of IFC's Development Results (IEDR) review the finding related to 174 IFC-Supported investment operations that reached early operating maturity during 2005-07.

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Product Description: The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports. Sound financial management, an efficient civil service and administrative policy, efficient and fair collection of taxes, and transparent operations that are relatively free of corruption all contribute to good delivery of public services...read more

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9780821375891 | World Bank, June 12, 2008, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports.

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Product Description: As part of the World Bank Group, IFC's overriding objective is to help reduce poverty and support sustainable development in developing countries. IFC pursues this mission by supporting the private sector to create jobs and simulate markets...read more

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9780821372647 | World Bank, October 30, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: As part of the World Bank Group, IFC's overriding objective is to help reduce poverty and support sustainable development in developing countries.

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Product Description: Middle income countries (MICs) are facing rapidly evolving development challenges as their economist mature and integrate into the global economy. As a group, the 86 MICs account for about one-fifth of world output, and their per capita income has grown by almost 4 percent annually since 1995...read more

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9780821372876 | World Bank, August 24, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Middle income countries (MICs) are facing rapidly evolving development challenges as their economist mature and integrate into the global economy.

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Acts as a guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies. This book also provides a critique of various methods and situates these approaches within 'real life' organisational settings.
By Giles Mohan (editor) and Alan Thomas (editor)

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9781412945639 | 1 edition (Sage Pubns Ltd, June 4, 2007), cover price $146.00 | About this edition: This book is a critical guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies.

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9781412945646 | Sage Pubns Ltd, June 4, 2007, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Acts as a guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies.

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Product Description: The need to promote increased trade, prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and ensure adequate water resources are some of the development challenges generating interest in increased regional and sub-regional cooperation. This evaluation seeks to provide guidance on when it is desirable for the Bank to support activities on a regional level, and assesses the effectiveness of both regional programs and the Bank's role in supporting them...read more

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9780821369043 | World Bank, April 1, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The need to promote increased trade, prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and ensure adequate water resources are some of the development challenges generating interest in increased regional and sub-regional cooperation.

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Product Description: During fiscal 2003-05, World Bank lending and administrative budgets to fragile states amounted to $4.1 billion and $161 million, respectively. IEG's report assesses the effectiveness of this Bank support. The report finds that the Bank and the donor community have improved their operational readiness to engage with fragile states, and made substantial progress on donor coordination at the international policy level...read more

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9780821368473 | World Bank, December 1, 2006, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: During fiscal 2003-05, World Bank lending and administrative budgets to fragile states amounted to $4.

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Book by Stermole, F.J., Stermole, J.M.

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9781878740137, titled "Economic Evaluation & Investment Decision Methods" | 13 edition (Investment Evaluations Corp, January 1, 2012), cover price $120.00
9781878740144 | 11 edition (Investment Evaluations Corp, June 6, 2006), cover price $95.00
9781878740090 | 10th edition (Investment Evaluations Corp, March 1, 2001), cover price $75.00
9781878740069 | 9th edition (Investment Evaluations Corp, May 1, 1996), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Book by Stermole, F.
9781878740038 | 8th edition (Investment Evaluations Corp, April 1, 1993), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: This book examines the objectives set by the World Bank for its operations in Turkey in the period 1993-2004 and the extent to which those objectives were met.

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9780821365731 | World Bank, June 1, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This book examines the objectives set by the World Bank for its operations in Turkey in the period 1993-2004 and the extent to which those objectives were met.

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Product Description: Over the past decade, the World Bank has dramatically altered its direction to emphasize poverty eradication as the institution's main mission. Many programs and policies have been revised to make the Bank more effective in its support of the global fight against poverty...read more

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9780821364611 | World Bank, November 7, 2005, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Over the past decade, the World Bank has dramatically altered its direction to emphasize poverty eradication as the institution's main mission.

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Product Description: 'Putting Social Development to Work for the Poor' finds that there is a strong positive association between including social development themes and project success. The Bank's social development resources are deployed in ways that are not optimally supportive of its social development goals, however...read more

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9780821358863 | World Bank, April 30, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 'Putting Social Development to Work for the Poor' finds that there is a strong positive association between including social development themes and project success.

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Product Description: * Explains best practice on conducting an “influencing agenda”* Powerful and wide-ranging case studies* Explores the link between research and policy This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy...read more
By Julius Court (compiler), Ingie Hovland (compiler) and John Young (compiler)

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9781853396038 | Practical Action Pub, March 30, 2005, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: * Explains best practice on conducting an “influencing agenda”* Powerful and wide-ranging case studies* Explores the link between research and policy This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy.

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Product Description: Praise for the First Edition: `[This book] raises some important issues that need to be pursued in the future: how to represent and evaluate complex development initiatives' - Development in Practice This book is the revised edition of the author's earlier and very successful Evaluation Frameworks for Development Programmes and Projects (SAGE, 1998)...read more

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9780761933106 | 2 edition (Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, November 16, 2004), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Praise for the First Edition: `[This book] raises some important issues that need to be pursued in the future: how to represent and evaluate complex development initiatives' - Development in Practice This book is the revised edition of the author's earlier and very successful Evaluation Frameworks for Development Programmes and Projects (SAGE, 1998).

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