On Evaluating Development Assistance Projects: Some Innovations

The scarcity of development funds, combined with the magnitude of development needs, makes diffusion of innovations a crucial process for less developed countries. We reviewed the diffusion of innovation literature in an attempt to identify a general strategy for identifying diffusion that occurs af...

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Published in:Evaluation review 1983-04, Vol.7 (2), p.175-190
Main Authors: Weiss, Carol H., Fuller, Theodore D.
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