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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center &#187; William Savedoff</title>
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>Development Is Toast</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2013/02/development-is-toast.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Complexity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - This week, Owen Barder gave an excellent presentation on Complexity and Development and asked whether development is an “emergent property of a complex adaptive system.” After listening to his talk, I fully agree with this definition. On further reflection, however, I decided that development is more like toast. Yes, white, wheat or rye, crisped up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Illicit Financial Flows Draining Development?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/12/are-illicit-financial-flows-draining-development.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/12/are-illicit-financial-flows-draining-development.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illicit Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odious Debt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=10220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - Yes, but not necessarily in the way most people think. Peter Reuter addressed this question at the Center for Global Development last week based on research in Draining Development? Controlling Flows of Illicit Funds from Developing Countries – a volume that he edited for the World Bank. It is clearly the most thorough assessment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“My Board Has More Stakeholders Than Yours!”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/11/my-board-has-more-stakeholders-than-yours.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/11/my-board-has-more-stakeholders-than-yours.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=10066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - In Governance of New Global Partnerships, a new CGD Policy Paper, Keith Bezanson and Paul Isenman shine light on an important feature of the international aid landscape – a cohort of international organizations established in the last two decades which tend to have focused mandates and large complex governing boards. This paper is a welcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact Evaluations Everywhere: What’s a Small NGO to Do?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/09/impact-evaluations-everywhere-whats-a-small-ngo-to-do.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/09/impact-evaluations-everywhere-whats-a-small-ngo-to-do.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evaluation Gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact Evaluation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=9558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - I frequently get inquiries from organizations that recognize the importance of rigorous evaluation and yet aren’t quite sure how they can do it. They see the growing number of random assignment or quasi-experimental studies and are attracted to the apparent objectivity and relative certainty of quantitative studies, but they are often reticent to dive into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Corruption Revisited: The Value of Portfolio Estimates</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/07/massive-corruption-revisited-the-value-of-portfolio-estimates.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/07/massive-corruption-revisited-the-value-of-portfolio-estimates.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Fund]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=9061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - Corruption in aid programs is a cyclical topic. Every scandal generates headlines, political reaction, tighter controls and then, usually, silence until the next scandal erupts. Such cycles are not helpful and we never really find out if such corruption is large and systematic or small and isolated. Last year I commented on press exaggerations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of International Cooperation: Is Action on the Sidelines Enough?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/07/the-future-of-international-cooperation-is-action-on-the-sidelines-enough.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/07/the-future-of-international-cooperation-is-action-on-the-sidelines-enough.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance/Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institutions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - Last month, two major international conferences were convened – the G-20 in Los Cabos on food security and sustainable development and the Rio +20 conference on the environment and more. Lawrence MacDonald contrasted the two meetings in his blog, pointing out that in both cases “much of the action is on the sidelines.” And he’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Randomized Evaluations Are So Great, Why Don’t Businesses Use Them?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/09/if-randomized-evaluations-are-so-great-why-don%e2%80%99t-businesses-use-them.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/09/if-randomized-evaluations-are-so-great-why-don%e2%80%99t-businesses-use-them.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - This is a joint post with Michael Clemens. Michael Clemens recently wrote me, saying that he gets asked this question a lot. I do, too. So I was interested when he brought my attention to a 2007 article in Forbes that discusses a number of companies that do use randomized studies. I wasn’t surprised to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Evidence of Rising Standards of Evidence: A Health Insurance Study in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/more-evidence-of-rising-standards-of-evidence-a-health-insurance-study-in-oregon.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/07/more-evidence-of-rising-standards-of-evidence-a-health-insurance-study-in-oregon.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation Gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact Evaluations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - A working paper distributed this month by NBER and covered in the New York Times not only contributes to the growing number of rigorous studies on public policy questions but also epitomizes changing research norms that are crucial to improving the quality of such studies. The study, “The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Do Impact Evaluations Because…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/05/don%e2%80%99t-do-impact-evaluations-because%e2%80%a6.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/05/don%e2%80%99t-do-impact-evaluations-because%e2%80%a6.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 19:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evaluation Gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact Evaluations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Savedoff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=6059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - Recently, I was called for advice by someone who will be running a workshop attended by people who implement and evaluate programs. She asked me to help her anticipate the main objections raised against doing impact evaluations—evaluations that measure how much of an outcome can be attributed to a specific intervention&#8211;and to suggest possible responses. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the World Bank Pay for Results or Will Critics Make It Impose Conditions?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/04/can-the-world-bank-pay-for-results-or-will-critics-make-it-impose-conditions.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/04/can-the-world-bank-pay-for-results-or-will-critics-make-it-impose-conditions.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Savedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash on Delivery Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By William Savedoff - Recently my colleague Alan Gelb and I attended a consultation at the World Bank’s annual meeting of its proposed “Program-for-Results” (P4R) policy. This is a remarkable step for the World Bank – the first time in 30 years that it is proposing a significantly new lending instrument. For now, the Bank can disburse funds to [...]]]></description>
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