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The report also noted the problematic quality of many 3ie studies, which highlights the difficulty of doing IE well.
Clemens and Demombynes (2013, p. 9) comment: ‘IE methods in today’s literature are better adapted to funders’ questions than to implementers’ questions. … . Pritchett et al discuss how iterative applications of IE methods, embedded within organizations in real time, can help implementers ‘crawl the design space’ to form and answer some questions that arise in the day-to-day process of making a project successful.
Implying that our particular ‘disciplinary code’ exerts some kind of agreement pressure is a bizarrely unconstructive tangent that is hardly central to the topic of this special issue.
Harrison (2014) confuses the process of accountability with what accountability reports on. The process, that is, nature of the relationship between commissioner and evaluator, often determines the focus – hence its importance.
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Guijt, I., Roche, C. Does Impact Evaluation in Development Matter? Well, It Depends What It’s For!. Eur J Dev Res 26, 46–54 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2013.40
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