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Adding value through policy-oriented research

independent impact assessment report
1998C. Peter Timmer
  international food policy research institute (ifpri)

Any evaluation of the benefits of policy-oriented social science research faces fundamental difficulties. These include the uncertainty in determining a causal link between research and the outcome of a policy or the value of a policy outcome. Nonethel…

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Policy for plenty

independent impact assessment report
1998George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang
  international food policy research institute (ifpri)

This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante. Measuring the benefits of policy research is difficult: the path of causation between research and policy change is nearly always uncertain; multipl…