"If you put the patient on the operating table without knowing exactly what your intervention is going to be about, it can be a mess," he said.
Eliciting this MRT (also called programme theory) not only helps us understand how the designers and implementers of an intervention think about it, but it can also be used as a hypothesis that can be tested on its explaining capacity.
But Rubio felt there was nothing a government intervention could do about it.
High aftertax returns are available in the U.S.; they are not, relatively speaking, available in Euroland, and there isn't much that central bank intervention can do about it.
Eight respondents (53%) did not know about FIT prior to the intervention, all knew about it after when they listed it as either somewhat or very effective.
And I think the truth about intervention is that it is only right when it is the last resort, when it has either limited objectives or where there is a very comprehensive plan working with regional and local leaders to go with it.
I think the truth about intervention is that it is only right when it is a last resort and where it either has limited objectives or it has a very comprehensive plan working with regional and local leaders to go with it".
"Regardless of all the various reservations about intervention, today it remains the only way to slow down the quick decay of the region, not Syria alone".
In focus groups we asked participants what they knew about the intervention, what they thought about it, their feedback on the materials, and their views about changes in attitude among their peer group.
In our case, there was a very good response rate before the intervention (about 80%) in both cohorts, and 6 months after it (about 75%).
