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Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Energia Author E. Colombo Pag.1 of 8 Date 28/01/2024 Engineering and Cooperation for Development Exam – January 16th, 2023 Surname and Name Codice persona/Personal code Question 1 (4 points) There is wide and extensive debate on the effectiveness of public aid for development . Please answer the following questions 1. Why is it more difficult to evaluate public aid than emergency? 2. Why the lack or reliable data can impact the understanding of the impact of development? 3. What are the other two reason why development is ontologically difficult to measure (examples from your project work can be used) Topic 1, package of slide “c” and bibliography In the domain of analysis of aid for development criticism , especially after the 80 was very tough,. The main reason is the lack of capacity to measure a real impact and the fact that after 6 decades of AID , Africa (for instance) is still lagging behind in term of development More in details. 1. emergency impact is basically evaluated in term of life saved. It is straightforward and everyone can see the effects of a flow of money in the country which are affected by the contingent emergency. Choice are based under pressure of time , but the goal is clear and not disputable. 2. The lack of reliable date make it impossible to learn from the past. To understand good or bad practice. Moreover there is not a unique definition of development so the lack of data is combined with the lack of a framework of reference associated to impact evaluation (indeed the OCSE DAC only provide general and non quantitative set of principles (see Q2) 3. The other two element are related to the realism of development (we do not conduct the experiment into a lab isolating one single condition but many other…