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Policy, Program and Project Evaluation

A Toolkit for Economic Analysis in a Changing World

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Editors:
  1. Anwar Shah

    1. Governance Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA

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  • Includes comprehensive coverage of traditional and modern tools of evaluation

  • Provides a framework of evaluation for policies, policy analysis, policy advice and impact analysis

  • Draws across a variety of disciplines, such as public management, public economics, public finance, and public policy

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Anwar Shah
    Pages 1-10

  3. A Primer on Public Sector Evaluations

    • Saubhik Deb, Anwar Shah
    Pages 11-57

  4. Economic Evaluation of Projects

    • Robin Boadway
    Pages 59-105

  5. The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: Concept, Measurement, and Applications

    • Bev Dahlby
    Pages 107-130

  6. Theory-Based Evaluations: Guidelines for Case Studies in Program and Project Evaluation

    • Ewa Tomaszewska
    Pages 131-176

  7. A Framework for Evaluating Anti-Corruption Policies and Programs

    • Jeff Huther, Anwar Shah
    Pages 177-201

  8. Evaluating External Analytical Advice on Budgetary Institutions and Allocations

    • Jeff Huther, Anwar Shah
    Pages 203-219

  9. Inter-Sectoral Allocation Choices

    • Stuart Landon
    Pages 221-282

  10. Evaluation of Decentralization Programs

    • Melville McMillan
    Pages 283-331

  11. Evaluating the Conditionality of External Development Assistance Programs

    • Anwar Shah
    Pages 333-399

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 401-410
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About this book

Evaluation in recent decades has evolved from a tool for project appraisals to a more widely used framework for public decision-making and operational management. Most evaluation books are focused on traditional tools of analysis such as cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis to the neglect of modern tools such as multi-criteria evaluation, social marginal cost of funds analysis, data envelopment analysis, results-oriented management and evaluation and theory based evaluations. This edited volume provides an easily accessible and comprehensive survey of both traditional and modern tools of analysis that are used in the evaluation literature to evaluate public projects, programs, policies and policy analysis and advice. The book will be of interest to students, scholars, researchers, practitioners and policy makers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Governance Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA

    Anwar Shah

About the editor

Anwar Shah is Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, USA. He is also an advisor/consultant to the World Bank and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. He has previously served the World Bank, Government of Canada (Ministry of Finance), the Government of Alberta, and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has published more than two dozen books in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Russian languages and numerous articles in leading economic journals on governance, public management reforms, budget reform, federalism, local governance, fiscal reforms and global climate change issues.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Policy, Program and Project Evaluation

  • Book Subtitle: A Toolkit for Economic Analysis in a Changing World

  • Editors: Anwar Shah

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48567-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48566-5Published: 03 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48569-6Published: 03 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48567-2Published: 02 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 410

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Economics, Public Finance, Public Policy, Development Economics

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