Research report 2023 - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Evidence and experiments – new developments in development cooperation
Authors
Schmidt, Mario
Departments
Abteilung ‚Anthropologie des wirtschaftlichen Experimentierens‘
Summary
A paradigm shift is changing how development policy is understood: with the help of experimental methods, evidence-based, international development cooperation strives to identify and quantitatively assess the effects of development interventions. My research project looks at what these changes mean for local communities in Western Kenya and examines how actors perceive these experimental methods.