{"title":"Impact of cash transfer on food accessibility and calorie-intake in Pakistan","authors":"Shagufta Shabbar","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2240764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2240764","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"21 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72428441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh","authors":"S. Amin, Momoe Makino","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2217151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2217151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75784571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis","authors":"Hui Ye, Yun-shu Tang, Zhixiang Zhou, Huaqing Wu","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2199311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2199311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73461304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How accurate are retrospective survey data? Evidence from rural Ethiopia","authors":"R. Fuller, Simone Lombardini, Cecilia Poggi","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2190602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2190602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80053112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s note","authors":"Emmanuel Jimenez","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2205230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2205230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"39 1","pages":"147 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75692750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan D. Bonilla, A. Coombes, D. Romney, P. Winters
{"title":"Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya","authors":"Juan D. Bonilla, A. Coombes, D. Romney, P. Winters","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2181848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2181848","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"12 8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80410980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benefit-cost analysis of iron fortification of rice in India: modelling potential economic gains from improving haemoglobin and averting anaemia","authors":"L. Qureshy, H. Alderman, Navneet Manchanda","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2168728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2168728","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents an ex-ante Benefit-Cost analysis of proposed fortification of extruder rice with iron under the social safety net in India. The benefits of iron fortification are estimated in terms of economic gains from increases in current work productivity among adults and future productivity from improvements in learning among school-going children. The base case scenario indicates a benefit cost ratio of 8.2, with 69 percent coming from improved learning in school and the remainder through enhanced work productivity. Benefit-cost ratios are also presented for a range of alternative assumptions, all of these resulting in ratios greater than 1. Nevertheless, despite decades of fortification at scale, a principal conclusion of this study is that future benefit cost models would gain confidence if more evidence is generated on the relationship of improved biomarkers for iron and changes in measures of cognition and labour productivity.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"199 1","pages":"91 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76035865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness","authors":"M. Gaarder, Johannes F. Linn","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2023.2171062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2171062","url":null,"abstract":"The arguments for including cost-analysis when assessing the effectiveness and benefits of policies and interventions are compelling: in a world of limited resources, it is not enough to know whether an intervention has an effect on the desired outcomes, such as improved early-grade reading, nor even the size of the effect. Policy-makers need to know whether they can afford those effects, whether they could have achieved them more cheaply through other interventions, and what the opportunity costs are across other outcomes, sectors, and interventions. For policymakers in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) this is all the more important as the potential benefit from scarce resources is greater. It is therefore quite astounding that across the international development field only about one in five impact evaluations include a good cost-effectiveness analysis, thus missing the opportunity to respond to the questions often foremost on policy-makers minds (Brown and Tanner, 2019). The study by Browne and Tanner (2019) points out a number of factors that limit cost analysis integration into impact evaluations. Correct and comprehensive costing is difficult and time consuming. This is compounded by low levels of training in cost data collection and analysis methods, limited interest in cost evidence from the journals that publish impact evaluations, and limited demand from funders that cost analysis be integrated into funded impact evaluations. Indeed, while ex-ante cost-effectiveness analysis was quite frequently used in international financial institutions in the early 1990’s to justify development investments, it had gone out of fashion just as the impact evaluation field was taking off. This special issue is dedicated to cost-analysis in the context of impact evaluation, as the explosion of the impact evaluation field is an extraordinary opportunity to finally get real-time, expost estimates of cost-effectiveness across interventions. The seven papers included in this special issue bring to the fore some common themes. They help us understand the challenges of collecting cost data and offer guidance on how to meet them. They provide an insight into a variety of approaches used and where more needs to be done. Below we start by briefly summarising the seven papers in this special volume. We then go on to highlight some additional costing questions related to projects and to the scaling of projects that would benefit from further attention in future costing research.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"124 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80055571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Trenouth, Victoria L. Sibson, C. Grijalva-Eternod, K. Golden, Chloe Puett
{"title":"Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger","authors":"L. Trenouth, Victoria L. Sibson, C. Grijalva-Eternod, K. Golden, Chloe Puett","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2158903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2158903","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We compared the costs and cost-efficiency of two unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programs in southern Niger – a ‘standard’ four-month program implemented during the June-September lean season and a six-month ‘modified’ UCT implemented April-September – each providing the same total cash transfer. The standard UCT was more cost-efficient based on all metrics. However, costs to beneficiaries were unevenly distributed due to program design decisions about cash delivery mechanisms, which eroded the net transfer value for some beneficiaries more than others. Beyond this finding, we contribute to the advancement of costing studies through the descriptive detail and transparent reporting of our analysis.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"27 1","pages":"111 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79143085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Maldonado, John Gomez-Mahecha, Viviana León-Jurado, Laura I. Villa, D. A. Rodriguez
{"title":"Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay","authors":"J. Maldonado, John Gomez-Mahecha, Viviana León-Jurado, Laura I. Villa, D. A. Rodriguez","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2153379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2153379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76366236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}