Ken Bank's recent post "Social Mobile and the Missing Metrics" really started my wheels turning. Among many other things, it started me thinking about how we could be smarter in implementation so as to facilitate true impact evaluation.

The first thing that came to mind is Oportunidades, formerly known as Progressa, the famous social assistance program in Mexico that made cash transfers contingent on school attendance and visits to health clinics.  When Opportunidades rolled out, they couldn'...

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