Howard White

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Director, GDN Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis Programme
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Howard is the Director of the GDN Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis Programme. Formerly, he was the CEO of the Campbell Collaboration and Adjunct Professor, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University. He is also a former executive director of 3ie.
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30 October 2025
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Mark Engelbert
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China’s explosion of impact evaluations: what it means for the global evidence base

Our latest blog in our series on regional trends in impact evaluation research takes a slightly different tack. Instead of surveying a region, we focus on a single country: China. China has emerged…
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Martin Ravallion, poverty researcher and impact evaluation pioneer: 1952-2022
20 February 2023
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Martin Ravallion, poverty researcher and impact evaluation pioneer: 1952-2022

Martin, regularly ranked amongst the world’s leading development economists, played a central role in the mainstreaming of poverty in the development agenda. In these days of the SDGs, younger people…
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3ie: from starting up to taking off
28 December 2018
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3ie: from starting up to taking off

Back in 2008, 3ie was just my laptop and me. It has come a long way since then. Although I bid farewell to the organisation in 2015, I have continued to watch how the organisation has grown. What has…
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Moving the debate forward on community-driven development
18 June 2018
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Radhika Menon
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Moving the debate forward on community-driven development

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about (Oscar Wilde). Our recent review of community-driven development (CDD) is certainly being talked…
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29 September 2015
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Tips on using impact evaluation to measure agency performance: applying the triple A principles

Impact evaluation has grown in popularity as governments and development agencies have come to realise that it is the best way to assess if their programmes work or not. But will these evaluations…
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