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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: OVERVIEW -- Chapter 1 Poverty Assessment of Microfinance Institutions -- Intended users -- Manual layout -- Study parameters and choice of an indicator-based methodology -- Methodological steps -- Multiple dimensions of poverty and their implications -- Development of a generic questionnaire -- Selection criteria for indicators -- Purpose of field testing -- Indicators chosen for questionnaire -- Methodology overview -- Using principal component analysis to develop the poverty index -- Using the poverty index -- Relative versus absolute poverty -- Interpreting results -- Selected results of test case studies -- Overall comparative results -- Summary -- PART II: PLANNING AND ORGANIZING THE ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 2 Planning and Organizing the Assessment -- Guidelines for contracting the assessment -- Responsibilities of the researcher -- Sequencing project payments -- Determining the required time frame -- Allocating the poverty assessment budget -- Personnel, logisitical, and performance issues affecting field implementation -- PART III: COLLECTING SURVEY DATA -- Chapter 3 Developing the Sample Design -- Step 1: Define the population and sampling unit -- Household as the basic sampling unit -- Determining a feasible survey area -- Step 2: Construct the MFI-based sampling frame -- Cluster sampling for new MFI clients -- Determining required clustering stages -- Step 3: Determine appropriate sample size -- Step 4: Distribute the samples proportionally -- Probability-proportionate-to-size sampling (PPS) -- Equal-proportion sampling (EPS) -- EPS method applied to client groups -- Step 5: Select the actual sample -- Random sampling within clusters -- Random sampling of nonclient households: The random walk -- Describing each survey site.

Intro -- NUTRITIONAL SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT TOOLS -- NUTRITIONAL SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT TOOLS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 -- LITERATURE SEARCHOF PUBLISHED TOOLS -- Chapter 2 -- SELECTION OF AN APPROPRIATE TOOL -- A. TOOL APPLICATION -- Target Population -- Outcome Variable and Risk Groups -- Initial and Subsequent Times of Administration -- Professional Group(s) of Administrators -- Review Conclusion -- B. TOOL DEVELOPMENT -- Content -- Content Based on Literature Search and Experience -- Content Validity -- Format -- Proforma Design -- Pilot Study -- Presentation of Tool -- Derivation -- Redundant Variables Excluded -- Subjective Assessment -- Pre-Defined Criteria -- Total Score -- Other Analytical Procedure -- Review Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS -- Dataset -- Univariate Analysis -- Multivariate Analysis -- Nutritional Screening Tool -- Evaluation -- Modifications -- Other Multivariate Techniques -- Further Issues -- C. TOOL EVALUATION -- Chapter 4 -- RELIABILITY -- Subjects -- Raters -- Independent Assessments -- Sample Size -- Analysis -- REVIEW CONCLUSION -- METHODOLOGY FOR RELIABILITY STUDY -- Dichotomous Data -- Ordinal Data -- Numerical Data -- Establishment of Reliability -- Chapter 5 -- VALIDITY -- TOOL USAGE -- Subjects -- Raters -- Independent Assessments -- REVIEW CONCLUSION -- CONSTRUCT VALIDITY -- Constructs -- Independent Assessments -- Sample Size -- Analysis -- REVIEW CONCLUSION -- Sample Size for Construct Validity Study -- (I) Equal Size Risk Groups -- (II) Unequal Sized Risk Groups -- Establishment of Construct Validity -- CRITERION VALIDITY -- Independent Assessments -- Sample Size -- Analysis -- REVIEW CONCLUSION -- Sample Size for Criterion Validity Study -- (I) Sensitivity -- (II) Specificity

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In recent years, there has been a drive to strengthen existing public accountability arrangements and to design new ones. This prompts the question whether accountability arrangements actually work. In the existing literature, both accountability 'deficits' and 'overloads' are alleged to exist. However, owing to the lack of a cogent yardstick, the debate tends to be impressionistic and event-driven. In this article we develop an instrument for systematically assessing public accountability arrangements, drawing on three different normative perspectives. In the democratic perspective, accountability arrangements should effectively link government actions to the 'democratic chain of delegation'. In the constitutional perspective, it is essential that accountability arrangements prevent or uncover abuses of public authority. In the learning perspective, accountability is a tool to make governments effective in delivering on their promises. We demonstrate the use of our multicriteria assessment tool in an analysis of a new accountability arrangement: the boards of oversight of agencies.

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