Title: Does research reduce poverty? : assessing the welfare impacts of policy-oriented research in agriculture

Authors: Masset, Edoardo and Mulmi, Rajendra and Sumner, Andy

Place: Brighton

Publisher: University of Sussex. Institute of development studies (IDS)

Year: 2011

Journal: IDS working paper

Volume: 360

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Innovation Systems

Keywords: agricultural research, development research, policy sciences, social welfare, evaluation, project evaluation, productivity, poverty, bangladesh, indonesia, jordan, kenya, malawi, mexico, philippines, syria, uganda, vietnam

Abstract: The paper surveys the different types of ‘policy-oriented’ research (POR); the literature on the ‘theories of change‘ for POR; methodologies for analysing the impact of POR; the relevant agriculture literature and outlines the types indicators that can be used for impact assessment of research.

URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2040-0209.2011.00360_2.x/pdf

Document type: E-article