Evidence
Our contribution
We seek to promote the use of impact measurements and social experimentation as a public management tool, and we encourage the learning process for both public policies and public management initiatives, independently of whether there is a CAF financial product associated to the project, with the goal of consolidating a deeper knowledge footprint that contributes with a decision making process increasingly based on evidence.
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In a year CAF achieves more financial strength and added new countries to become the green bank and lead the region’s economic reactivation
September 01, 2022
The largest capitalization approval in the bank’s history for USD 7.000 million; Chile, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic shareholding increase
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Lessons We Can Draw From “Non-significant” Results
September 24, 2019
When public servants perform an impact assessment, they expect the results to confirm that the policy’s impact on beneficiaries meet their expectation…
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3 key aspects for a rigorous impact evaluation
January 21, 2019
In the world of public policy, it is not uncommon for some units that were not first considered (for not meeting certain eligibility criteria or any o…
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3 key aspects about statistical power in impact assessments
November 29, 2018
Impact assessment results are usually translated into public policy decisions. The "statistical power" is one of the items that helps ensure that such…
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Three sources to find strong evidence for public policies
July 23, 2018
Rigorous evidence refers to studies that perform an objective and standardized measurement of their variables of interest, and that demonstrate that t…