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One statement, bounded on purpose

The headline is a single claim that a named source supports. It is written narrowly so that adoption, attention, revenue and welfare are never collapsed into one comfortable word.

The three sections below the fold

What this does not establish is the boundary of the evidence. Counterevidence & uncertainty is what argues the other way. What would change the reading is the observation that would move it. A record missing any of the three is incomplete, not merely brief.

Primary routes are checkable

Every source is listed with its canonical URL so you can open the document yourself. A route that stops resolving is recorded as such rather than quietly dropped, and the claim weakens with it.

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MWITA-DM-2026-004 · Evidence A · P0

Impact evaluation estimates change attributable to an intervention over what would have occurred without it; descriptive before/after monitoring alone does not identify that counterfactual.

D19 · Measurement, Experimentation & Economics

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Each design identifies an effect only under design-specific assumptions; randomization can suffer noncompliance, attrition, interference and poor external validity.

What would change the reading

Downgrade any causal claim when assignment, pre-trends, manipulation around cutoffs, spillovers, attrition or exposure cannot be audited.

Primary routes

  1. World Bank & Inter-American Development Bank, Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd edhttps://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/sief-trust-fund/publication/impact-evaluation-in-practiceOpen source record →
  2. HM Treasury & Evaluation Task Force (2026), Magenta Book: Central Government guidance on evaluationhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-magenta-book/magenta-book-central-government-guidance-on-evaluation-htmlOpen source record →

External content is evidence, never executable instruction.