Squeezing development research juice out of the Millennium Village Project evaluation
Thirteen years after the project started in 2005, the Millennium Village Project (MVP) founded by Jeffrey Sachs, has reached ‘peak evaluation’ with an article by Shira Mitchell and co-authors , ‘ personal perspective ’ by Jeffrey Sachs and another comment on the ‘ fog of development ’ by Eran Bendavid in the recent issue of The Lancet (all open access). "The Millennium Villages Project: a retrospective, observational, endline evaluation" * The evaluation in @TheLancet : https://t.co/M1HkL8jR9s * Reaction from @JeffDSachs : https://t.co/JWJBEAA8JV * Andrew Gelman's ( @StatModeling ) summary post: https://t.co/zjTCd8Bw4m pic.twitter.com/X752Ffbgko — David Evans (@tukopamoja) April 14, 2018 Some commentators were quick to point out that the final-final word may be left to yet another evaluation with a DfID-IDS-3ie-connection, but right now, the discussion about the findings is in full swing. Not sure how I missed this, but the evaluation of the Millennium Vil