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  • Handbook On Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods And Practices

    by Khandker Shahidur; B. Koolwal Gayatri; Samad Hussain ...
    Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank, for example, succeeded in lowering consumption poverty among the rural poor in Bangladesh? Can conditional cash transfer programs in Mexico and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Power for All

    Electricity Access Challenge in India

    by Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Douglas Barnes, Bipul Singh, Kristy Mayer, Hussain Samad ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    India is a leading developing country in providing electricity to rural and urban populations. By late 2012, the national electricity grid had reached 92 percent of India's rural villages, or about 880 million people. Yet, approximately 311 million people-mostly those in rural areas-still live without electricity. Less than half of all households in the poorest income group have electricity. Even ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Ending Poverty

    The Dynamics of Microfinance in Bangladesh

    by Shahidur R. Khandker, M.A. Baqui Khalily, Hussain A. Samad ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Poverty
    The recent past has witnessed phenomenal growth in microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. Today, as many as 200 million people are beneficiaries of microfinance. With its worldwide attention, microfinance has also received serious criticism, including that it is a fad with less-than-expected benefits for the poor. Surely, microfinance is not without limitations. Yet the premise of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surge in Solar-Powered Homes

    Experience in Off-Grid Rural Bangladesh

    by Shahidur R. Khandker, Hussain A. Samad, Zubair K.M. Sadeque, Mohammed Asaduzzaman, Mohammad Yunus, A.K. Enamul Haque ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Energy and Mining
    Bangladesh has the world's fastest growing, off-grid solar home system (SHS) coverage. The number of SHS installations has risen phenomenally—from a five-year target of 50,000 in 2003 to 50,000 a month a decade later. By early 2014, installations totaled more than 3 million. Even so, this figure represents just 10 percent of the country's off-grid households, suggesting ample room for continued ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Mixtape

    by Scott Cunningham ...
    An accessible, contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the social sciences“Causation versus correlation has been the basis of arguments—economic and otherwise—since the beginning of time. Causal Inference: The Mixtape uses legit real-world examples that I found genuinely thought-provoking. It’s rare that a book prompts readers to expand their outlook; this one ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Art of Statistical Thinking

    by Albert Rutherford, Jae H. Kim PhD ...
    Not knowing statistics can lead to a loss of money, time, and accurate information.What am I looking at? What do these numbers mean? Why? These are frequent thoughts of those who don't know much about statistics."I'm not a number's person" is not a good excuse to avoid learning the basics of this essential skill. Are you a person who earns money? Do you shop at the supermarket? Do you vote? Do you ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Running Randomized Evaluations

    A Practical Guide

    by Rachel Glennerster, Kudzai Takavarasha ...
    A comprehensive guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs in developing countriesThis book provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. Drawing on the experience of researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which has run hundreds of such evaluations in dozens of countries throughout the world, it ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Surveys In Social Research

    by David De Vaus, David De Vaus ...
    Series series Social Research Today
    David de Vaus' classic text Surveys in Social Research provides clear advice on how to plan, conduct and analyse social surveys. It emphasises the links between theory and research, the logic and interpretation of statistics and the practices of social research. This sixth edition has been completely revised and updated, and contains new examples, data and extensive lists of web resources.As well ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Methods Matter

    Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research

    by Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett ...
    Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, knowledge about what ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Multilevel Modeling in Plain Language

    by Karen Robson, David Pevalin ...
    Have you been told you need to do multilevel modeling, but you can′t get past the forest of equations? Do you need the techniques explained with words and practical examples so they make sense?Help is here! This book unpacks these statistical techniques in easy-to-understand language with fully annotated examples using the statistical software Stata. The techniques are explained without reliance ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets

    Cutting Edge Applications for Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization and Economics

    Edited by Christian L. Dunis, Peter W. Middleton, Andreas Karathanasopolous, Konstantinos Theofilatos ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    As technology advancement has increased, so to have computational applications for forecasting, modelling and trading financial markets and information, and practitioners are finding ever more complex solutions to financial challenges. Neural networking is a highly effective, trainable algorithmic approach which emulates certain aspects of human brain functions, and is used extensively in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science: Volume 2, Case Studies in Insurance

    Edited by Edward W. Frees, Glenn Meyers, Richard A. Derrig ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Predictive modeling uses data to forecast future events. It exploits relationships between explanatory variables and the predicted variables from past occurrences to predict future outcomes. Forecasting financial events is a core skill that actuaries routinely apply in insurance and other risk-management applications. Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science emphasizes life-long ... Read more

    $101.69 USD