Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam

While most economists assume that aid is fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The authors study recipient government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World Bank-financed project. They estimate the impac...

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Main Authors:	van de Walle, Dominique, Mu, Ren
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGGREGATES BRIDGES COMMUNES DISTRICT ROADS DISTRICTS DRAINAGE EARTH ROAD EARTH ROADS EQUATIONS HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INSPECTION INTERVENTION LENGTH OF ROADS MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER PASSENGER TRANSPORT PATH PAVED ROADS POOR ROADS POPULATION DENSITY RAILWAY ROAD ROAD BUILDING ROAD CONSTRUCTION ROAD IMPROVEMENTS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD LENGTH ROAD LINKS ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD QUALITY ROAD SECTOR ROAD TYPES ROAD WORKS ROADS ROUTINE MAINTENANCE RURAL ROAD RURAL ROAD DENSITY RURAL ROAD REHABILITATION RURAL ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SIGNS SURVEYING TAX TRANSPORT TYPES OF ROAD TYPES OF ROADS VEHICLE ACCESS VILLAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/02/7367875/fungibility-flypaper-effect-project-aid-micro-evidence-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7167

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spelling	okr-10986-71672021-04-23T14:02:33Z Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam van de Walle, Dominique Mu, Ren AGGREGATES BRIDGES COMMUNES DISTRICT ROADS DISTRICTS DRAINAGE EARTH ROAD EARTH ROADS EQUATIONS HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INSPECTION INTERVENTION LENGTH OF ROADS MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER PASSENGER TRANSPORT PATH PAVED ROADS POOR ROADS POPULATION DENSITY RAILWAY ROAD ROAD BUILDING ROAD CONSTRUCTION ROAD IMPROVEMENTS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD LENGTH ROAD LINKS ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD QUALITY ROAD SECTOR ROAD TYPES ROAD WORKS ROADS ROUTINE MAINTENANCE RURAL ROAD RURAL ROAD DENSITY RURAL ROAD REHABILITATION RURAL ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SIGNS SURVEYING TAX TRANSPORT TYPES OF ROAD TYPES OF ROADS VEHICLE ACCESS VILLAGES While most economists assume that aid is fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The authors study recipient government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World Bank-financed project. They estimate the impact of a rural road rehabilitation project in Vietnam on the kilometers of roads actually rehabilitated and built. Using local-level survey data collected for this purpose, the authors test whether the evidence supports the standard economic argument that there will be little or no impact on rural roads rehabilitated, given fungibility. They find evidence that, although project aid impacts on rehabilitated road kilometers were less than intended, more roads were built in project areas. The results suggest that there was fungibility within the sector, but that aid largely stuck to that sector. 2012-06-05T19:20:43Z 2012-06-05T19:20:43Z 2007-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/02/7367875/fungibility-flypaper-effect-project-aid-micro-evidence-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7167 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4133 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Vietnam
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topic	AGGREGATES BRIDGES COMMUNES DISTRICT ROADS DISTRICTS DRAINAGE EARTH ROAD EARTH ROADS EQUATIONS HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INSPECTION INTERVENTION LENGTH OF ROADS MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER PASSENGER TRANSPORT PATH PAVED ROADS POOR ROADS POPULATION DENSITY RAILWAY ROAD ROAD BUILDING ROAD CONSTRUCTION ROAD IMPROVEMENTS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD LENGTH ROAD LINKS ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD QUALITY ROAD SECTOR ROAD TYPES ROAD WORKS ROADS ROUTINE MAINTENANCE RURAL ROAD RURAL ROAD DENSITY RURAL ROAD REHABILITATION RURAL ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SIGNS SURVEYING TAX TRANSPORT TYPES OF ROAD TYPES OF ROADS VEHICLE ACCESS VILLAGES
spellingShingle	AGGREGATES BRIDGES COMMUNES DISTRICT ROADS DISTRICTS DRAINAGE EARTH ROAD EARTH ROADS EQUATIONS HOUSEHOLDS INCOME INSPECTION INTERVENTION LENGTH OF ROADS MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT MOTOR VEHICLE PASSENGER PASSENGER TRANSPORT PATH PAVED ROADS POOR ROADS POPULATION DENSITY RAILWAY ROAD ROAD BUILDING ROAD CONSTRUCTION ROAD IMPROVEMENTS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD LENGTH ROAD LINKS ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD NETWORK ROAD QUALITY ROAD SECTOR ROAD TYPES ROAD WORKS ROADS ROUTINE MAINTENANCE RURAL ROAD RURAL ROAD DENSITY RURAL ROAD REHABILITATION RURAL ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SIGNS SURVEYING TAX TRANSPORT TYPES OF ROAD TYPES OF ROADS VEHICLE ACCESS VILLAGES van de Walle, Dominique Mu, Ren Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
geographic_facet	East Asia and Pacific Vietnam
relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4133
description	While most economists assume that aid is fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The authors study recipient government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World Bank-financed project. They estimate the impact of a rural road rehabilitation project in Vietnam on the kilometers of roads actually rehabilitated and built. Using local-level survey data collected for this purpose, the authors test whether the evidence supports the standard economic argument that there will be little or no impact on rural roads rehabilitated, given fungibility. They find evidence that, although project aid impacts on rehabilitated road kilometers were less than intended, more roads were built in project areas. The results suggest that there was fungibility within the sector, but that aid largely stuck to that sector.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	van de Walle, Dominique Mu, Ren
author_facet	van de Walle, Dominique Mu, Ren
author_sort	van de Walle, Dominique
title	Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
title_short	Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
title_full	Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
title_fullStr	Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed	Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
title_sort	fungibility and the flypaper effect of project aid : micro-evidence for vietnam
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/02/7367875/fungibility-flypaper-effect-project-aid-micro-evidence-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7167
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Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam

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