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dc.titleOrganizational Efficency or Bureaucratic Quagmire: Do Quality at Entry Assessments Improve Project Performance?
dc.contributor.authorCorral, Leonardo
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Nancy
dc.contributor.orgunitOffice of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2017-04-14T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2017-03-31T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractDo quality at entry assessments enhance the delivery of development projects? In this paper we take advantage of approval and execution systems in place at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to examine whether projects that have higher quality at entry--captured through grading scores provided by a checklist--perform better in terms of project implementation performance indicators. Implementation indicators include measures based on actual versus planned schedule of activities and cost outlays, as well as percent of loan disbursed. The analysis suggests higher scores on project logic and economic analyses at entry have had a positive impact on project performance. However, monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment scores had limited impacts on performance. The evidence supports the hypothesis that the use of a checklist can be an effective framework for assessing quality at entry for IDB projects, though there is scope to improve the checklist for certain indicators.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011790
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Organizational-Efficency-or-Bureaucratic-Quagmire-Do-Quality-at-Entry-Assessments-Improve-Project-Performance.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectDevelopment Effectiveness Matrix
dc.subjectDevelopment Effectiveness Framework
dc.subjectProject Evaluation
dc.subjectEvaluability
dc.subjectMonitoring and Evaluation
dc.subjectImpact Evaluation
dc.subject.jelcodeH43 - Project Evaluation • Social Discount Rate
dc.subject.jelcodeO12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeO19 - International Linkages to Development • Role of International Organizations
dc.subject.jelcodeO22 - Project Analysis
dc.subject.keywordsQuality at Entry;Project Performance;International Linkages to Development;Project Evaluation;Development Effectiveness;Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development;Project Analysis
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
idb.operationBK-A1644
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