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Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development : Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts
Evans, David - 2017
As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...
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The Success of Infrastructure Projects in Low-Income Countries and the Role of Selectivity
Limodio, Nicola - 2017
This research analyzes the success of the infrastructure projects financed by the World Bank, focusing on the causal link between the quality of project implementation and its outcome. The results show that the success of infrastructure projects depends fundamentally on the quality of...
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Good Countries or Good Projects? Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank Project Performance
Denizer, Cevdet - 2017
The authors use data from more than 6,000 World Bank projects evaluated between 1983 and 2009 to investigate macro and micro correlates of project outcomes. They find that country-level "macro" measures of the quality of policies and institutions are very strongly correlated with project...
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Does Participation Improve Project Performance : Establishing Causality with Subjective Data
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
Development practitioners are coming to a consensus that participation by the intended beneficiaries improves project performance. But is there convincing evidence that this is true? Skeptics have three objections: 1) quot;Participation is not objective -- project rankings are subjective; 2) this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746916
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The Distributional Incidence of Residential Water and Electricity Subsidies
Komives, Kristin - 2006
Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779253
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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2006
and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783436
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Financial Outreach and Working Poverty in Developing Countries : New Evidence from Bank Penetration
Coulibaly, Aissata - 2018
access to financial services, measured by the number of bank branches, on working poverty and inequality in the labor market … on working poverty is two times less important than the positive impact on workers at the top of the income distribution … to financial services for relatively rich workers can have a strong effect on decreasing working poverty …
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Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor : Does Money Talk When Health Workers are Pro-Poor?
Banuri, Sheheryar - 2018
Do service providers respond to pecuniary incentives to serve the poor? Service delivery to the poor is complicated by the extra effort required to deliver services to them and the intrinsic incentives of service providers to exert this effort. Incentive schemes typically fail to account for...
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Are the Poor Getting Globalized?
Mendoza, Adelina - 2018
One reason that poor people may not capture the full benefit from participation in international markets is that the goods they produce tend to be subject to relatively high trade barriers. This paper analyzes market access barriers faced by households in different income deciles by matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909665
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Transport Policies and Development
Berg, Claudia N. - 2018
This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transport policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically assessed, especially those dealing with endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937140