Understanding your Local Economy: Key Issues and Quick Reference Materials
This Cities Alliance resource is a summary of methods tools and resources on how to organise economy assessments, identify data, collect and analyse data. It provides a short introduction to more detailed resources.
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Introduction to Local Economy Assessments:Trainer's Manual Module 2
This World Bank module presents rationale, methods and examples of how to understand the local economy ahead of devising an LED strategy with information and data to examine and forecast key factors that drive and affect the local economy.
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The Urban Transition in Tanzania
In predominantly rural countries with the prospect of rapid urbanization, like Tanzania, government agencies face a steep learning curve in confronting the challenges associated with the urban transition. This World Bank study from Tanzania deals with selected urban-related empirical questions that government agencies are faced with in countries where urbanization is a relatively new phenomenon.
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Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Evidence from Kenya
This paper discusses the use of small, time-limited discounts on fertilizers as a way to help farmers commit to fertilizer use. The paper provides an example on how to measure impact of a localized agricultural business promotion strategy using randomization techniques.
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Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access
This paper reports on an impact evaluation of the credit expansion for micro-entrepreneurs in Manila, the Philippines. The paper illustrates the usefulness of having robust indicators that can distil the real impact and answer the counterfactual question ‘what would have happened without the project’ (randomized methodology).
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The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
This paper reports on a randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing microcredit in the slums of Hyderabad, India. The paper illustrates the usefulness of having robust indicators that can distil the real impact and answer the counterfactual question ‘what would have happened without the project’ (randomized methodology).
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Impact Evaluation of Rural Road Projects
This paper by Dominique van de Walle provides a discussion of the challenges connected to assessing the impact of rural transport infrastructure interventions.
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Tracking Results in Rural Development in Less-than-ideal Conditions
This World Bank & FAO sourcebook focuses on outcomes and results in the agricultural sector. It also provides useful suggestions on data sources, collection and processing methods, including the potential use of national statistical offices.
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Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
In this paper, Duflo and Kremer call for an expansion of the use of randomized evaluations to assess project impact. Randomization techniques can be used as a means of benchmarking project performance, which is a recommended supplement to simple before-and-after analyses.
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Putting Together the Site Selection Data Standards
This resource summarises data standards for business location services. Developed by a task force for American and Canadian communities, the data needs can be tailored to meet the specific requirements of localities in Africa and elsewhere.
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