Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?
Until recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area lend themselves less to formal evaluations. However,...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090527130847 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4137 |
| Summary: | Until recently rigorous impact
evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and
private sector development. One reason for this is the
perception that many policies and projects in this area lend
themselves less to formal evaluations. However, a vanguard
of new impact evaluations on areas as diverse as fostering
microenterprise growth, microfinance, rainfall insurance,
and regulatory reform demonstrates that in many
circumstances serious evaluation is possible. The purpose of
this paper is to synthesize and distil the policy and
implementation lessons emerging from these studies, use them
to demonstrate the feasibility of impact evaluations in a
broader array of topics, and thereby help prompt new impact
evaluations for projects going forward. |
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