Recommended Readings
Evaluation
* Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed
Dichter, T. (2003). Boston: University of Massachusetts Press.
This book discusses poverty and the evaluation of development assistance in developing countries.
* Challenging Foreign Aid: Radelet, S. (2003) Washington D.C.: The Centre for Global Development.
This book tackles the challenges facing foreign aid under the Bush administration.
* The UNDP's Handbook on Monitoring and Evaluating for Results
United Nations Development Programme Evaluation Office (2002). New York: Author.
This book tackles monitoring and evaluation frameworks, performance measurement, and the use of monitoring and evaluation information.
* Evaluation Findings That Surprise Light, R. editor (2001). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.
This book gives insight on new directions in evaluation and the evaluations of public policy and education.
* Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty Baker, J. (2000). The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Washington D.C.: The World Bank.
This book covers key steps in designing and implementing impact evaluations.
* Learning From Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Estrella, M., et. al. (Ed.). (2000). London: Intermediate Technology Publications; Ottawa: International Development Research Centre.
This book studies the evaluation of economic development and community development projects.
* Social Impact Analysis of Poverty Alleviation Programmes and Projects: a Contribution to the Debate on the Methodology of Evaluation in Development Cooperation Neubert, S. (2000). Portland: Frank Cass.
This book highlights social and domestic aspects of economic assistance and economic development projects.
* Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why World Bank Policy Research (1998). New York: Oxford University Press Inc.
This book assesses economic assistance and its evaluation.
* Foreign Aid and Economic Growth: a Theoretical and Empirical Investigation Bowen, J. & Hants, A. (1998). Brookfield: Ashgate.
This book tackles the history, evaluation, and research of economic assistance.
* Evaluation and Development: the Institutional Dimension Picciotto, R., Wiesner E. (Ed.). (1998). NJ: Transaction Publishers.
This book discusses institutional economics and evaluation in developing countries.
* Evaluating Country Development Policies and Programs: New Approaches for a New Agenda Picciotto, R., Rist, R., (Ed.). (1995). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Pub.
This book covers new dimensions in evaluation, evaluating the programmes of poverty alleviation and other development programmes, assessing institutional development, and assessing evaluation models.
* The Political Economy of Evaluation: International Aid Agencies and the Effectiveness of Aid Carlsson, J., K?hlin G., Ekbom, A. (1994). New York: St. Martin's Press.
This book assesses economic assistance to developing countries and evaluates economic development projects.
* How to Communicate Evaluation Findings Morris L., Fitz-Gibbon C. & Freeman, M. (1987). California: SAGE Publications Inc.
This book tackles identifying the target audience of evaluation findings, and methods of communicating and evaluation reports.
* Does Aid Work? : Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force Cassen R. & Associates. (1986) Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press.
This book discusses economic and technical assistance to developing countries and its evaluation.
* The Practice of Social Research Babbie, E. (1979) California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
This book covers social science research and methodology.