Hugh Waddington

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Economist

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Hugh Waddington is an economist at the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has advanced degrees in development economics and environmental health. He specializes in policy research on topics like water, sanitation and hygiene, governance and agriculture using methods like impact evaluation, systematic review, and meta-analysis. Formerly, he was a Senior Evaluation Specialist at 3ie.

Blogs by author

26 March 2015

MDG for water: is the job done?

Water provision remains high on the global development agenda including political commitments such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and associatedpost-2015 targets. By 2012, the United…

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10 December 2014

Myths about microcredit and meta-analysis

It is widely claimed that microcredit lifts people out of poverty and empowers women. But evidence to support such claims is often anecdotal. A typical micro-finance organisation website paints a…

26 September 2014

How 3ie is tackling the challenges of producing high-quality policy-relevant systematic reviews in international…

At its annual colloquium being held in Hyderabad, India, theCochrane Collaborationis focusing on evidence on theglobal burden of diseaseof mostly treatable illnesses that are concentrated among…

04 March 2014

How much evidence is enough for action?

One of the most useful ways in which evidence from rigorous evaluations can be used is to help policymakers take decisions on going to scale. Notable recent examples ofscaled-up interventions based…

01 March 2013

Of sausages and systematic reviews

We know that systematic reviews can be a very good accountability exercise in helping answer the question “do we know whether a particular programme is beneficial or harmful?”. So instead of cherry…