Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies

The Centre is committed to identifying success and failures in interventions and to promoting best practice in evaluating and conducting interventions. In particular, the Centre is a focal point for research on the impact of specific interventions in health, nutrition, skill acquisition, education, credit, insurance and labour. The Centre works with international organizations, NGO's and other partners to evaluate specific interventions in developing countries, provide support to institutions conducting evaluations, engage in advocacy on best practice in terms of evaluations and on the design of interventions. Partly funded by the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analsysis of Public Policy at IFS, the Centre disseminates the results of high quality research on these interventions. [ More]

The main focus of the ongoing research is human development. The core funding comes from the Department for International Development and the Economic and Social Research Council. [ More]

• Education
• Health/nutrition
• Consumption decisions under extreme poverty
• Insurance and credit markets
• Intra-household allocation models
• Violence and risk and their economic impacts
• Labour market and social security
• Public expenditure and allocation
• Networks
• Data and measurement