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The Poverty Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation Thematic Group periodically organizes seminars, workshops, brown-bag lunches (BBLs), and training events. The announcements, presentations and papers presented at the events are archived here.  Please click on the name of the event to access these materials (Use the free Adobe Acrobat Readerto view them).

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DATE          EVENT    PRESENTERS
2008  
Apr 21-23PREM Week 2008: Assessing Programs and Policies Using Impact Evaluation and PSIA 
Apr 14-15Evaluating the Poverty Impacts of Economy-Wide Policies (Module 7 of Poverty and Inequality Analysis Course)B. Essama-Nssah
Mar 31The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in KenyaDavid Evans
Jan 15-16Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluation for Policy Making 
2007  
Dec 4Beating the Odds: Sustaining Inclusion in a Growing Economy -- A Mozambique Poverty, Gender and Social AssessmentLouise Fox and Malcolm Ehrenpreis
Nov 20Can Future Shared Growth Diagnostics Help Governments Avoid Repeating Past Mistakes? Reflections from Uganda CEMDino Leonardo Merotto
Nov 6Does CDD Work? Emerging Evidence from the KALAHI-CIDSS Project in the PhilippinesJulien Labonne
Nov 5Estimating Utility-Consistent Poverty Lines with Applications to Egypt and MozambiqueChanning Arndt (Purdue University)
Nov 1Shared Growth in Ghana - Integrating Growth and Poverty Analysis in the Ghana CEM Zeljko Bogetic and Quentin Wodon
Oct 9New Directions in Catastrophe Risk ModelsRichard Murnane (Baseline Management Company, Inc., and Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)
Oct 2Determinants of the Growth Semi-Elasticity of Poverty ReductionStephan Klasen (University of Göttingen)
Jun 12Guidelines for Impact Evaluations in the Water and Sanitation SectorChristine Poulos and Subhrendu Pattanayak (RTI International)
May 31Does Employment Generation Matter for Poverty Reduction?Catalina Gutierrez and Pierella Paci
May 10Outside Funding and the Dynamics of Participation in Community AssociationsMichael Kremer
May 8Poverty Assessments in a Can Michael Lokshin
Apr 17-19The Ins and Outs of Impact Evaluation and PSIA 
Apr 16-17Evaluating the Poverty Impacts of Economy-Wide Policies (Module 7 of Poverty and Inequality Analysis Course) B. Essama-Nssah
Apr 3Social Safety Nets and Subsidy Reform in Egypt: Toward More Effective PoliciesJohn Blomquist
Mar 13The Urbanization of Global PovertyMartin Ravallion
Feb 21 Impact Evaluation of Jamaica's Program of Advancement Through Health and EducationDan Levy and Jim Ohls (Mathematica Policy Research)
Feb 12Microfinance and Home Improvement: Using Retrospective Panel Data to Measure Program Effects on Discrete EventsBruce Wydick (University of San Francisco)
2006  
Dec 12 Early Childhood Development: Promoting the Well Being of Children and FamiliesCraig Ramey (Georgetown University)
Oct 24Assessing the Poverty Impact of Economic Growth: The Case of IndonesiaB. Essama-Nssah
Oct 17The Unique Face of Poverty and Vulnerability in Zambia: Shocks, Deteriorating Economic Conditions, and HIV/AIDSValerie Kozel
Oct 5Impact Evaluation for Rural Roads

Dominique Van de Walle, John Hine, Celeste Tarricone and Anne Rothbaum

Sep 26Benefit Incidence and Targeting Performance: A New Framework with Application to Subsidies for Infrastructure and Human Development in AfricaDiego Angel-Urdinola, Prospere Backiny-Yetna, and Quentin Wodon
May 15, 16, 18, 19Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies within the PAMS FrameworkB. Essama-Nssah
May 11More than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions 
Apr 27-28Measuring Service Delivery 
April 11Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Report on Growth, Poverty and InequalityRuslan Yemtsov
Mar 29Approaches to Impact Evaluation in Microfinance Projects

Ghazala Mansuri, Xavier Giné, Pedro Olinto, Emmanuel Skoufias

Mar 22-23 Frontiers in Practice: Reducing Poverty through Better Diagnostics 
Mar 21Developing Poverty Maps to Improve Policies: The Experience of EcuadorCaridad Araujo
Mar 16Well-Being and Poverty in Ethiopia: The Role of Agriculture and AgencyLuc Christiaensen
Mar 14Developing Poverty Maps to Improve PoliciesJennie Litvack
Feb 26The Effect of Pre-Primary Education on Primary School PerformancePaul Gertler
Feb 6Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from MadagascarHanan Jacoby
Jan 24Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in CambodiaDeon Filmer and Norbert Schady
2005  
Dec 13Reducing Schooling Inequality via CCT Programs: The Case of PRAF II in HondurasPedro Olinto
Dec 8Micro-Level Estimation of Child Malnutrition Indicators and its Application in CambodiaTomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University)
Dec 6Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long Term Living StandardsSebastian Martinez
Nov 29Impact Evaluation Using Secondary Data: Experiences from IEG's Evaluation of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in BangladeshHoward White (Independent Evaluation Group)
Nov 22Conditional Cash Transfer Programs for Child Human Capital Development: Lessons Derived from Experience in Mexico and BrazilAlain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet
Nov 8Evaluating the Impact of Land Reform Interventions: A Discussion of MethodologyJonathan Conning and Partha Deb (Hunter University)
Nov 8Returns to Education in the Economic Transition: 1986-2002Luca Flabbi, Stefano Paternostro, and Erwin Tiongson
Oct 11PSIA: Integrated Urban Upgrading in Poor Areas: The Experience of Ribeira Azul, Salvador, BrazilJudy Baker and Ivo Imparato
July 28

Conducting quality impact evaluations under budget, time and data constraints

Michael Bamberger
Apr 26Influential EvaluationsMichael Bamberger
Apr 12Assessing Organizational PerformanceMarie-Helene Adrien (Universalia)
Apr 5Evaluating the Early Child Development (ECD) Program in the PhilippinesJere Behrman, Sharon Ghuman, Socorro Gultiano, Elizabeth King
Mar 23Designing and Conducting Focus Groups in the Development Context (Beginner to Intermediate)Janet Mancini Billson (Group Dimensions Intenational)
Mar 22Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Education ReformsErwin H. R. Tiongson & Elena Bardasi
Mar 16-25Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies within the PAMS FrameworkB. Essama-Nssah
Mar 15CDD Impact Evaluations: Practical Approaches to a Tough Analytic ProblemRobert Chase
Mar 8Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Trade ReformsMaurizio Bussolo
Mar 1 Impact Evaluation of Basic Education in GhanaHoward Nial White
Feb 22Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Agricultural Market ReformsMattias Lundberg
Feb 17Measuring School Readiness: The Early Development InstrumentMagadalena Janus
Feb 8PRSP Monitoring Systems: A Review of 5 Countries' Experience

Solveig Buhl

Feb 7Impact Evaluation: Measuring EffectivenessArianna Legovini
Jan 25Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Land ReformsKlaus W. Deininger
Jan 18Designing an Evaluation to Evaluate the Impact of the Ethiopia's Women's Development Initiatives Project on Women's EmpowermentArianna Legovini
Jan 11Monitoring and Evaluation of Multi-Country HIV/AIDS ProgramsJoseph Valadez
2004      
Dec 21Evaluating Social Development Projects: Integrating the Art of Practice and the Science of EvaluationMichael Woolcock & Katherine Whiteside
Dec 14Improving Primary School Education in India: An Impact Assessment of DPEP-Phase IElena Glinskaya & Jyotsna Jalan
Dec 7Poverty and Social Impact Analysis & Utility ReformsVivien Foster
Nov 30Impact Evaluations: Early Childhood Development and Nutrition Program in UgandaHarold Alderman
Nov 11(A Proposal to Evaluate) the Impact of CrediAmigo and the Expansion of Access to Financial Services in Brazil

Emmanuel Skoufias

Oct 20 Medium and Long Run Effects of Nutrition and Child Care: Evaluation of a Community Nursery Program in Rural Colombia

Orazio Attanasio

Oct 19Evaluating the Impact of HIV/AIDS Interventions: Challenges, Lessons and FindingsDavid Wilson (Global HIV/AIDS Program, HDNGA)
Sep 21 The Role of the Labor Market in MakingGrowth Pro-PoorJohn Nellis (Center for Global Development)
May 25 Evaluating the impact of infrastructure rehabilitation interventions on household welfare in Georgia- BBL Michael M. Lokshin and Ruslan R. Yemtsov
May 17

Who cares about corruption? Implications for the design of anticorruption strategies - BBL

Jamele Rigolini (New York University)
May 10-14Monitoring and social accountability for Roma poverty reduction - WBI Training EventAline Coudouel
May 7 Poverty monitoring systems in the context of poverty reduction strategies- PREM Learning Week eventFrancesca Bastagli, Aline Coudouel , Valerie Kozel, Keith Mackay and Kaspar Richter
May 6 Poverty assessment: integrating gender analysis- Poverty Analysis Clinic during PREM Learning Week Pierella Paci, Florencia Casro-Leal and Malcolm Ehrenpreis
May 4

Addressing gender issues in the PSIAs: Cases from Zambia, Chad and Guyana - BBL

Steen Jorgensen, Kene Ezemenari, Nora Dudwick
Apr. 30 PRSPs, PRSCs, with a focus on the challenges of monitoring - Africa Region PREM day Aline Coudouel, Norman Hicks, Stefan Koeberle
Apr. 26 Roads out of poverty: assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth and poverty reduction- BBL Pierre-Richard Agénor (WBI and Yale University) and Karim El Aynaoui
Apr. 22 Public sector downsizing: Issues and tools- Training Course Martin Rama
Apr. 13 Social protection in a crisis: Argentina’s Jefes y Jefas- BBL Emanuela Galasso
Mar. 16 Cost-benefit analysis as a tool to evaluate the distributional impacts of water sector reform- BBL Caroline Van den Berg
Mar. 3 PSIA of monetary and exchange-rate reform- BBL Patrick Conway (University of North Carolina)
Feb. 24 Real and distributive effects of petroleum price liberalization: the case of Indonesia- BBL Benedict Clements (Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF)
Jan. 13 A suggested framework with application to VAT in Bangladesh - BBL Shahabuddin M. Hossain (African Department, IMF)
2003     
Nov. 18Small area estimates of welfare impacts: the case of rice price changes in Madagascar- BBL Johan Mistiaen
Oct. 14 Subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country: Madagascar 2001 - BBL Nithin Umapathi
Jun. 19Analysis of institutional barriers to poverty reduction- Poverty Analysis Clinic  S. Shah, R. Nayar, T. Vishwanath, B. Bidani 
Jun. 12 Introduction to the comparative development performance (CDP) approach- BBL Jim Cannon and Fulai Sheng (Conservation International)
Jun. 4Fostering country ownership of poverty analysis: the January 2002 India poverty workshop- Poverty Analysis Clinic M. Ravallion, V. Kozel, A. Deaton
Chair:  Sadiq Ahmed
May 20Tracking the poverty and distributional implications of macroeconomic performance with PAMS- BBL Boniface Essama Nssah and Issouf Samake
May 13 A programmatic approach to poverty analysis: what is it, and when is it appropriate?- Poverty Analysis Clinic R. Shaban and K. Richter
Chair: A. Coudouel
Apr. 10Assessing statistical capacity & improving data quality for development- PREM Learning Week event

Graham Eele & Neil Fantom, M. Belkindas, G.Delaine, L. Ojiambo

Apr. 9Poverty Assessments: the next generation - Poverty Analysis Clinic during PREM Learning WeekG. Prennushi, T. Haque, K. Richter and Q. Wodon
Mar. 25Outcomes of power sector reform in ECA: The case of Armenia- BBL Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee
Mar. 11Impact of institutional and trade policy reforms: Analysis of Mongolia’s cashmere sector- BBL Vera Songwe
Mar. 5 Evaluating the poverty impact of projects: Tools for practitioners - B-SPAN video Judy Baker
Jan. 31Sampling for household and enterprise surveys - Learning event Juan Munoz
Jan. 28-30 Multi-topic household survey course - Learning event  
Jan. 27Poverty monitoring in the context of poverty reduction strategies- Learning eventAline Coudouel, Giovanna Prennushi, Keith Mackay
2002  
Dec. 17The social capital assessment tool (SOCAT) and the local level institutions and social capital study in Bosnia and HerzegovinaP. Poggi and C. Grootaert
Jun. 19 Poverty Monitoring- PREM Learning week event A. Coudouel, K. Beegle, T. Marchant, B. Rao, K. Sirker, K. Ezemenari, V. Kozel
Jan. 22Poverty monitoring overview course  G. Prennushi, T. Marchant, K. Scott, P. Petesch, M. Woolcock
2001  
Feb. 27 - Mar. 1

Quantitative poverty diagnostic tools for poverty reduction strategies

Presenters
Jan. 11Clinic on indicators for the Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia country teams  P. Nicholas, G. Prennushi
2000  
Sep. 20Performance indicators: Implications for PRSPsG. Prennushi, R. Reinikka, A. Simonpietri, C. Humphreys, C. Monga, D. Morrow

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