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Whatâs on trial? The making of field experiments in international development
In the last 20Â years, the drive for evidenceâbased policymaking has been coupled with a concurrent push for the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as the âgoldâstandardâ for generating rigorous evidence on whether or not development interventions work. Drawing on content analysis of 63 development RCTs and 4 years of participant observation, I provide a rich description of the diverse set of actors and the transnational organizational effort required to implement development RCTs and maintain their âscientific status.â Particularly, I investigate the boundary work that proponents of RCTsâalso known as randomistasâdo to differentiate the purposes and merits of testing development projects from doing them, as a way to bypass the political and ethical problems presented by adopting the experimental method with foreign aid beneficiaries in poor countries. Although randomistas have been mostly successful in differentiating RCTs from the projects evaluated, I also examine cases where they were not able to do so, as a means to highlight the controversies associated with implementing RCTs in international development.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154964/1/bjos12723_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154964/2/bjos12723.pd
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN STATE AND BUSINESS IN THE STRATEGIC PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC TARGET PROGRAMS
The report describes the nature, content, current status, measures and solutions to the urgent problems of the deeper involvement of the business sector of the Russian economy in the long-term implementation of the strategy of socio-economic development, the development and implementation of state, federal, regional, sectoral, departmental program