Risk Analysis and Program Evaluation

Authors

  • Ken Watson Rideau Research Associates Ltd. Ottawa, Ontario

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.3.003

Abstract

Evaluation studies by the Government of Canada follow standard procedural guidelines but have been retrospective and idiosyncratic in their methodologies. Therefore, they do not enable comparisons of the likely future effectiveness of competing programs. In contrast, the World Bank uses a combination of benefit/cost analysis and risk analysis to produce standard “bottom line” measures of program effectiveness. The latter approach makes evaluation studies more useful in decision making.

Downloads

Published

1988-09-01

How to Cite

Watson, K. (1988). Risk Analysis and Program Evaluation. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 3(2), 35–48. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjpe.3.003

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (1988): Fall

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 1988 Ken Watson

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Authors contributing to The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation agree to release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC) license. This licence allows this work to be copied, distributed, remixed, transformed, and built upon for any purpose provided that appropriate attribution is given, a link is provided to the license, and changes made were indicated.

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal right of first publication.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.