In a new blog posting, IEG Evaluation Methods Advisor, Jos Vaessen asks how complicated does the (intervention) model have to be?
Even though simple models are incomplete and inadequate for some questions, more elaborate models are not necessarily generating more accurate predictions or explanations of reality.
To reach a broader audience, IFAD IOE has launched an IOE Twitter account and YouTube channel. Over the coming weeks, IOE plans to expand the current library by adding, for example, event and learning activity-related videos.
More importantly, they need 100 subscribers to upgrade to the youtube.com/IFADeval/ link. They need your help!
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Marvin Taylor-Dormond, formerly with the World Bank Group (WBG), as its new director-general of Independent Evaluation. Mr. Taylor-Dormond has a long association with evaluation in a 26-year career in multilateral development banking, focusing over the past several years on private sector operations and sustainable development.
Middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face several evolving development challenges, including poverty, inequality, unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation and climate change, low productivity and lack of competitiveness, macroeconomic instability, and insufficient economic diversification. At the same time, these countries have displayed dynamism that has created new opportunities.
