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May
4
2010
9:00—5:00 PM
April 26, 2010
Focusing on the role of rigorous evaluation in policy interventions and highlighting lessons learned from conditional cash transfer programs in the health and education sectors, the event will be an opportunity for dialogue between high-level policymakers and researchers to discuss the implications ...
January 16, 2010
Nancy Birdsall gave the closing remarks at the 2004 Conference of the World Bank's Operations and Evaluations Department. The conference focused on the effectiveness of the Bank's policies and reforms. Birdsall discussed her views on reforming donor activities in order to improve foreign aid to poor...
CGD NOTES
August 21, 2008
In September 2008 official aid donors and recipients will meet in Accra, Ghana, to discuss how to make development assistance more effective. CGD president Nancy Birdsall and co-author Kate Vyborny suggest that advocates of better aid who really want a win at Accra forget haggling over broad concep...
REPORTS
May 31, 2006
Each year billions of dollars are spent on thousands of programs to improve health, education and other social sector outcomes in the developing world. But very few programs benefit from studies that could determine whether or not they actually made a difference. This absence of evidence is an urgen...