Evaluation
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Viet Nam must escape low productivity, low value-add trap to industrialize
By Hyun H. Son on Tuesday, 02 August 2016
In its quest to become an industrialized nation, Viet Nam must redouble efforts to improve the skills of the labor force and cultivate high-technology, high value-add industries.
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5 ways interventions can support environmentally sustainable growth
By Andrew Brubaker on Wednesday, 04 May 2016
Recent evaluation shows these elements are crucial to supporting economic growth and eradicating poverty without further harming the environment.
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Is infrastructure investment the answer to sluggish economic growth?
By Vinod Thomas on Thursday, 21 April 2016
Yes – but only if the focus is on quality and impact, and not on the quantity and volume of investment.
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Making a bigger difference in the poorest and most vulnerable countries
By Benjamin Graham on Wednesday, 20 January 2016
ADB reforms and new resources provide an opportunity to make incremental progress on development work in Asia’s low-income countries.
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Top 5 surprising independent evaluation results
By Vinod Thomas on Monday, 04 January 2016
Although evaluation findings often confirm strongly held and highly intuitive views in areas like project design, sometimes there are unexpected results.
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Infrastructure and safeguards
By Vinod Thomas on Tuesday, 06 October 2015
As multilateral development banks gear up to fill serious gaps in infrastructure in Asia, attention also focuses on safeguards, which should be a top concern for established lenders such as the World Bank and ADB as well as new players like the AIIB.
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Making private sector investments deliver development impacts
By Vinod Thomas on Wednesday, 16 October 2013
For development institutions, private sector investments offer plenty of potential for promoting inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth at a profit. But how successful are they in achieving actual development gains?
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What comes after the MDGs?
By Vinod Thomas on Monday, 27 May 2013
A global debate on what comes after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015 is already in full swing. For Asia and the Pacific, a new development agenda will need to address those MDGs that made only slow progress or regressed and a number of emerging development issues gaining prominence.
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How can evaluation promote better results?
By Vinod Thomas on Thursday, 14 March 2013
In development, as in matters of health, prevention is better than cure. Had policymakers acted boldly to avert well-recognized economic imbalances before 2008, the financial crisis may have been avoided.
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Natural disasters and how much they affect the economy
By Vinod Thomas on Thursday, 29 November 2012
“We’ve never seen anything like this” is the refrain increasingly heard in every corner of the world in the wake of natural disasters. Indeed, intense natural disasters have increased nearly fourfold over the past four decades, with floods and storms representing 70% of the increase. Asia and the Pacific has been the worst hit region. Yet, the response to hazards of nature has been mostly to react when they strike. The upshot I see is this: unless prevention takes center stage, disasters will likely unravel progress.