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This book presents an accounting framework to critically review existing studies of aid's macroeconomic effects and as a basis for four country studies on Guinea-Bissau, Nicaragua, Tanzania and Zambia. This framework focuses on the impact of different types of aid on the level and composition of key macroeconomic aggregates such as imports, investment and government expenditure. The importance of the relationship between aid and policy reform is also stressed. The case studies find that aid has had a generally positive contribution, though recommendations to further improve aid impact are also given.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Impact Evaluation for Evidence-Based Development -- 1.1 Why Does Impact Evaluation Matter? -- 1.2 The Purposes of Impact Evaluation -- 1.3 What Questions Can Impact Evaluation Answer? -- 1.4 Impact Evaluation in the Project Cycle -- 1.5 Impact Evaluation, Evaluation, and Economic Analysis -- 1.6 About This Book -- 2. Using Theories of Change to Identify Impact Evaluation Questions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 What Is a Theory of Change? -- 2.3 Issues Raised by the Theory of Change -- 2.4 Constructing the Theory of Change -- 2.5 Applying the Theory of Change -- 3. The Core Concepts of Impact Evaluation -- 3.1 What Is Impact Evaluation? -- 3.2 Identifying Control and Comparison Groups -- 3.3 Biases and Challenges for Causal Inference -- 3.4 Time Dimension of Impacts -- 3.5 Unit of Assignment, Treatment, and Analysis -- 3.6 Different Impact Measures - Impacts for Whom? -- 3.7 Internal and External Validity -- 4. Randomized Controlled Trials -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Why Randomize? -- 4.3 Types of Randomized Controlled Trial Designs -- 4.4 Steps in Implementing a Randomized Controlled Trial -- 4.5 Reporting Randomized Controlled Trials -- 4.6 Working with Randomized Controlled Trials in Practice -- 4.7 Summary -- 5. Nonexperimental Designs -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Difference-in-Differences Estimates -- 5.3 Synthetic Controls -- 5.4 Propensity Score Matching -- 5.5 Propensity Score Weighting and Double Robust Techniques -- 5.6 Regression Discontinuity Design and Interrupted Time Series -- 5.7 Instrumental Variables -- 5.8 Endogenous Treatment and Control Function Approaches -- 5.9 Endogenous Switching Regressions -- 5.10 Summary -- 6. What and How to Measure: Data Collection for Impact Evaluation.

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This important contribution to the literature on development economics analyses the effectiveness of programme aid - i.e. aid that is not given in the form of projects. Using real world examples from countries such as Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Vietnam this book deals with one of the core issues in development economics today