Minding the Gap: Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization

• Tác giả: Diana Goldemberg
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 028.8 Use of books and other information media as sources of recreation and self-development
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oxford University on behalf of the World Bank, 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 299970
• Chủ đề: 1. AID EFFECTIVENESS; 2. MACHINE LEARNING; 3. WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Tóm tắt

This paper applies novel techniques to long-standing questions of aid effectiveness. It constructs a new data set using machine-learning methods to encode aspects of development project documents that would be infeasible with manual methods. It then uses that data set to show that the strongest predictor of these projects' contributions to development outcomes is not the self-evaluation ratings assigned by donors, but their degree of adaptation to country context and that the largest differences between ratings and actual impact occur in large projects in institutionally weak settings. It also finds suggestive evidence that the content of ex post reviews of project effectiveness may predict sector outcomes, even if ratings do not.