Evaluation and Development

Eduardo Wiesner

INTRODUCTION PART I: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT 1. Institutions in development: the country, research, and operational challenges 2. Institutions, markets, and development outcomes 3. Institutions, policies, and development outcomes 4. Reinvigorating state institutions PART 2: INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES 5. Fostering fiscally responsive and accountable governance: lessons from decentralization 6. Transaction cost economics and public sector rent-seeking in developing countries: toward a theory of governance failure 7. Performance contracts: a tool for improving public services? 8. Reforming budgetary institutions in Latin America: the case for a national fiscal council 19. Credible regulatory policy: options and evaluation PART 3: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL 10. Defining social capital: an integrating view 11. An institutional framework for learning from failed states 12. Learning from early childcare and education programs 13. Institutional structure and social security systems: lessons from the Chilean experience PART 4: THE IMPLICATIONS OF NEOINSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS FOR EVALUATION 14. Evaluation as an incentive instrument 15. Implications for evaluation POSTSCRIPT: THE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF EVALUATION