Impact evaluations answer which question?
A) Will a developing country be able to put aid to productive use?
B) How did people's lives change after a program or policy was put in motion, compared with how they would have changed without it?
C) What is the effectiveness of various macro-level governmental or trade policies at promoting economic development?
D) How will culture change as a result of economic development?

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Impact evaluations aim to measure the causal effects of a program or policy on outcomes of interest, by comparing what happened with the intervention or policy in place, to what would have happened in the absence of it. Therefore, impact evaluations answer the question of how people's lives have changed as a result of a particular intervention or policy. Options A, C, and D may be relevant questions for other types of analysis, but they do not pertain to impact evaluations specifically.

Impact Evaluations Answer Which Question