Tara Kaul

Tara
Designation
Former Evaluation Specialist, 3ie
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Tara Kaul formerly reviewed research and managed 3ie-funded impact evaluation grants.

Tara is a development economist and holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Maryland, USA. She has a masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a bachelors in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. Her research interests are in the area of development economics and public economics.

Tara's current research focuses on the nutritional impact of food subsidies, and intra-household gender discrimination in educational expenditures in India.

Blogs by author

Putting government in the driver’s seat to generate and use impact evaluations in the Philippines
11 March 2019
Emmanuel-Jimenez
Emmanuel Jimenez
Tara
Tara Kaul
Fides Borja
Fides Borja +
 

Putting government in the driver’s seat to generate and use impact evaluations in the Philippines

Impact evaluations are sometimes criticised for being supply-driven. It is hard to know for sure. There is no counterfactual to what would have happened without the impact evaluation. Regardless of…
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DFID Humanitarian
17 August 2018
Samidha
Samidha Malhotra
Tara
Tara Kaul +
 

Too difficult, too disruptive and too slow? Innovative approaches to common challenges in conducting humanitarian…

Over 200 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance across the world today. In 2017, the UN-coordinated appeals reported a shortfall of 41 per cent, despite receiving a record…
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humanitarian
18 August 2015
Tara
Tara Kaul
/Kanika
Kanika Jha Kingra +
 

Using evidence to rebuild lives

International humanitarian assistance reached arecord high in 2014, with global contributions totalling US$24.5 billion,almost a 19 per cent increase since 2013.However, this isn’t good news for the…
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