Quality of life: A way to buttress crisis program evaluations?
Crisis resolution
Evaluation criteria
Program Evaluation
Quality of life
Sovereign lending
Well-being indicators
Journal
Evaluation and program planning
ISSN: 1873-7870
Titre abrégé: Eval Program Plann
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7801727
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2023
08 2023
Historique:
received:
29
10
2021
revised:
04
05
2023
accepted:
18
05
2023
medline:
15
6
2023
pubmed:
28
5
2023
entrez:
27
5
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To test the applicability of the quality of life concept (QoL) in evaluations of financial assistance programs to sovereigns, we apply the OECD well-being framework to the programs in a euro area country, and find that the multidimensional framework promises policy-relevant findings, capable of informing other approaches for evaluating program relevance and effectiveness. The framework's headline indicators nevertheless, needed to be complemented with additional indicators owing to data challenges. The well-being dimensions demonstrate that our primary country case and other assisted euro area countries struggled to protect some vulnerable groups before and during the crisis years, although many QoL indicators depict improvement once program completion approached. In many cases, gender, age and education level related differences were apparent, and should be better considered in future crisis programs. The framework also facilitates considering governance elements with our enhancements. It offers good grounds for deepening the understanding of stakeholders' perception of reform benefits or shortcomings, thus of program ownership. By using the OECD framework we explore some interpretative limits of QoL in evaluation, and underscore that a full program evaluation would require careful integration in primary case data. Further research and data set improvements would enhance this approach's utility.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37244098
pii: S0149-7189(23)00093-9
doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2023.102316
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
102316Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Kari Korhonen reports a relationship with European Stability Mechanism that includes: employment. Olga Francová reports a relationship with European Stability Mechanism that includes: employment. Dušan Kovačević reports a relationship with European Stability Mechanism that includes: employment.