Power to the people? Taking a look at community driven reconstruction in the DRC

Given the Bank's recent release of a report on community driven development and a recent New York Times article about the intractability of peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I…

Markus Goldstein |
Gender

The Results are in! Did our blog readers do better than our seminar audiences at predicting the impacts of a jobs program?

In a recent post, I described a randomized experiment in Jordan that I (along with Matt Groh, Nandini Krishnan and Tara Vishwanath) have been working on.

David McKenzie |
Gender, Jobs & Development

Are our blog readers better predictors of impact results than seminar audiences? Evaluating programs to get young women to work

I’ve been working for the last couple of years with Tara Vishwanath, Nandini Krishnan and Matt Groh on a pilot program in Jordan which aims to get young women just graduating from community…

David McKenzie |
Gender, Jobs & Development