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In the presence of agglomeration economies, the effects of a rural roads programme depend not only on the reduction in transportation costs, but also on the form of labour mobility. When financed by a poll tax on rural households, the wage will rise, accompanied by some return migration,...
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The structure employed is a small open economy, with one city and a rural hinterland, two traded goods, a transport sector, two specific factors, and mobile labour. A socially profitable programme will promote not only internal, but also external trade. Theory and numerical examples indicate...
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Do 'local' methods of evaluation, such as partial equilibrium analysis at market prices or estimation of shadow prices …
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Heterogeneous panel causality tests are employed to consider the relationship between urbanization change and economic growth (i.e., differenced logged GDP per capita). Income and geography-based panels demonstrated substantial variation in that relationship. Urbanization caused economic growth...
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This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the …
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This paper presents a methodology to integrate cost-benefit analysis and SAM-CGE-based impact evaluation. While the two … approaches should be integrated for complex investment projects, since their economic evaluation cannot rely solely on the … partial equilibrium assumptions of cost-benefit (CB) analysis. Unlike CB analysis, impact evaluation looks at the economy as a …
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The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households or locations. The emphasis is on the problems encountered in applying these methods to anti-poverty programs in developing countries,...
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In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability …, results from such ex-ante evaluations provide insights for the project design, thereby reducing the gap between evaluation … researchers and practitioners. -- Impact evaluation ; ex-ante impact assessment ; electricity access ; rural development …
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This paper applies real options theory to establish an overseas oil investment evaluation model that is based on Monte …
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variant evaluation a "situation room" (specific interface of the model) was designed, the calculation results were visualized …
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