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  • Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation

    Changing Perspectives

    Edited by Ray C. Rist, Frederic P. Martin, Ana María Fernandez ...
    The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are poor nor what can be done structurally and institutionally to reduce and eliminate it. The various chapters illustrate in ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System

    A Handbook for Development Practitioners

    by Jody Zall Kusek, Ray C. Rist ...
    An effective state is essential to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development. With the advent of globalization, there are growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to the demands of internal and external stakeholders for good governance, accountability and transparency, greater development effectiveness, and delivery of tangible results. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Urban School

    A Factory for Failure

    by Ray C. Rist ...
    Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life. Such concerns date back at least to the nineteenth century. A thread that weaves its way through the critiques of American elementary and secondary ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation

    Changing Perspectives

    Edited by Ray C. Rist, Frederic P. Martin, Ana María Fernandez ...
    The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and political cul de sac. It does not address the fundamental question of why people are poor nor what can be done structurally and institutionally to reduce and eliminate it. The various chapters illustrate in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation

    by Brian Crozier, Ray C. Rist ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Great intellectual effort has gone into the development of sophisticated designs and methodologies to study individual policies, programs, and projects. Costly efforts to find the smallest evidence of a policy or program impact have been undertaken in the presumption that such data are central to policy decision making. Meanwhile, the intergovernmental nature of political and policy governance has ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence

    Dealing with Crises That Endanger Our Future

    Edited by Ray C. Rist ...
    The presence of turbulence in multiple areas of our society--food, fuel, and finances-being but three critical areas presently being impacted means that long-held assumptions are no longer true, that the past is not prologue, and that the future is not clear. And enter into this unstable present the discipline of evaluation-a discipline formed and shaped in the past fifty years of stability, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19

    Edited by Pearl Eliadis, Indran A. Naidoo, Ray C. Rist ...
    Did evaluation meet the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis? How were evaluation practices, architectures, and values affected? Policy Evaluation in the Era of COVID-19 is the first to offer a broad canvas that explores government responses and ideas to tackle the challenges that evaluation practice faces in preparing for the next global crisis. Practitioners and established academic experts in the ... Read more

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  • The Future of the Fifth Child

    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent children with the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa Diagnostic Tool

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015). When embedded within a broader rural development framework, stronger coherence ... Read more

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  • IEO Annual Report 2005-06

    by International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office ...
    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    The IMF’s surveillance framework encompasses a new focus on multilateral issues, and especially the spillovers from one economy onto others. This third Annual Report of the Independent Evaluation Office describes ongoing and recently completed evaluations and discusses additions to IEO’s work plan. General lessons pertaining to IMF surveillance emerging from recent evaluations are highlighted and ... Read more

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  • IEO Annual Report, 2007

    by International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office ...
    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    The IEO’s latest Annual Report covers its activities during the financial year ended April 2007. It summarizes the most recent IEO evaluations of The IMF and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa and IMF Exchange Rate Policy Advice. The report also presents messages that are common to many IEO evaluations and are particularly noteworthy as the IMF proceeds with the implementation of its Medium-Term Strategy. ... Read more

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  • IEO Annual Report 2009

    by International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office ...
    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    This sixth Annual Report describes the activities of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) during the year to April 30, 2009. The report summarized the findings of IEO's most recent evaluations, lists cross-cutting lessons highlighted in previous years' reports, and discusses ongoing evaluation projects. The report also describes the new framework for monitoring and following up on the ... Read more

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