ex-ante evaluation
- noun
- /ɛksˈænteɪ ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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evaluación ex ante
- An ex-ante evaluation helps policymakers predict potential outcomes before allocating resources to a program.
Examples
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The funding agency required an ex-ante evaluation to ensure the project's feasibility and effectiveness.
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Comprehensive ex-ante evaluations are key to minimizing risks in large-scale development projects.
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The team conducted an ex-ante evaluation of the new policy.
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Have you completed the ex-ante evaluation for the project?
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An ex-ante evaluation helps stakeholders understand the potential impacts of a policy before it is implemented.
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To make informed choices, governments rely on ex-ante evaluations to assess expected outcomes of proposed projects.
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Prior to launching the initiative, the committee mandated an ex-ante evaluation to evaluate its anticipated success.
Surface Forms
Morphology
ex-ante + evaluation
The phrase is compositionally an evaluation carried out beforehand: 'ex-ante' (literally 'before the event') modifies 'evaluation' to indicate a forward-looking assessment. However, 'ex-ante' is a Latin technical/academic term not part of core B1 vocabulary; while speakers familiar with academic register or with similar forms in other languages will find it transparent, an average B1 learner who does not know this Latin phrase is unlikely to infer the precise meaning, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
Ex-ante evaluation comes from the idea that ex-ante means 'before' and evaluation means a careful check, so it is a study done before a project starts to predict its likely effects.
