Maria Ruth Jones

I am a Survey Specialist with the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department at the World Bank, where I lead DIME Analytics and work on impact evaluations related to rural development and infrastructure.

DIME Analytics takes advantage of the scope and scale of DIME research to develop technical solutions and best-practice workflows. We aim to share all resources developed and tested in DIME with the global research community, as open-source and open-access public goods. In 2021, we published Development Research in Practice: the DIME Analytics Data Handbook, which combines the disparate best practices, tools, and resources developed and curated by the Analytics team into a coherent narrative workflow across the entire research cycle. Other public products include the Manage Successful Impact Evaluation course, the DIME Wiki, and custom stata tools (ietoolkit and iefieldkit).

I joined the World Bank after completing an MA in International Relations/ Development Economics from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. In previous roles at DIME, I coordinated a portfolio of impact evaluations for the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, and worked on a program of impact evaluations in Malawi.