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of LaborEntrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis
, 2013
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Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be
Do Selection Rules Affect Leader Responsiveness? Evidence from Rural Uganda
, 2013
"... Community organizations in developing countries often suffer from self-serving elites. This study examines whether the responsiveness and accountability of local leaders can be strengthened through the intro-duction of more inclusive and participatory leader selection rules. To address identificatio ..."
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Community organizations in developing countries often suffer from self-serving elites. This study examines whether the responsiveness and accountability of local leaders can be strengthened through the intro-duction of more inclusive and participatory leader selection rules. To address identification problems, I take advantage of natural condi-tions that resulted in exogenous variation in the rules for selecting leaders of farmer associations in Uganda. I find that compared to lead-ers appointed by the community elites, directly elected leaders are
Public Disclosure Authorized The World Bank Independent Evaluation Group
"... The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world’s population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting development challenges. To deliver better results on the ground, it is necessary to improve ..."
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The international community is paying increased attention to the 25 percent of the world’s population that lives in fragile and conflict affected settings, acknowledging that these settings represent daunting development challenges. To deliver better results on the ground, it is necessary to improve the understanding of the impacts and effectiveness of development interventions operating in contexts of conflict and fragility. This paper argues that it is both possible and important to carry out impact evaluations even in settings of violent conflict, and it presents some examples from a collection of impact evaluations of conflict prevention and peacebuilding interventions. The paper examines the practices of impact evaluators in the peacebuilding sector to see how they address evaluation design, data collection, and conflict analysis. Finally, it argues that such evaluations are crucial for testing assumptions about how development interventions affect change—the so-called “theory of change”—which is important for understanding the results on the ground. This paper is a product of the Public Sector Evaluation Department, Independent Evaluation Group. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions
an Initial Training Network supported by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme. www.tamneac.eu Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-term Results from an Experimental
, 2011
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Field and lab experimental evidence from Uganda
, 2012
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Information and collective action in community-based monitoring of schools:
Uganda Social Action Fund, and Patrick Premand and Suleiman Namara of the World Bank for their contributions
, 2012
"... Draft. Please do not cite or circulate without permission of authors. Acknowledgements: We thank Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister, the management and staff of the Northern ..."
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Draft. Please do not cite or circulate without permission of authors. Acknowledgements: We thank Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister, the management and staff of the Northern
