Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid
Recipient government responses to development project aid have typically been studied at high levels of aggregation, using cross-country comparisons and/or aggregate time series data. Yet increasingly the relevant decisions are being made at the local level, in response to specific community-level p...
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okr-10986-88192021-04-23T14:02:42Z Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid van de Walle, Dominique Cratty, Dorothyjean ACCOUNTING AGGREGATES COMMUNES COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES COMPETITIVE BIDDING CONTRACTORS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA COLLECTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISTRICTS DWELLING EARTH ROADS ENDOWMENTS EVALUATION METHODS EXPENDITURE FUNGIBILITY GOOD GOVERNANCE HOUSEHOLDS IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INTERVENTION LIVELIHOOD LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MATCHING MATCHING METHODS OUTCOME INDICATORS PASSENGER PMU POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS PROJECT EVALUATION PROJECT IMPACTS REFLEXIVE COMPARISONS ROAD CHARACTERISTICS ROAD DENSITY ROAD IMPROVEMENTS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD LENGTH ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD QUALITY ROAD REHABILITATION ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ROUTINE ROAD MAINTENANCE RURAL AREAS RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SELECTION BIAS SURVEYING TERRAIN TRANSPORT TREATMENT EFFECTS VILLAGES WAGE INCOME Recipient government responses to development project aid have typically been studied at high levels of aggregation, using cross-country comparisons and/or aggregate time series data. Yet increasingly the relevant decisions are being made at the local level, in response to specific community-level projects. The authors use local-level data to test for fungibility of World Bank financing of rural road rehabilitation targeted to specific geographic areas of Vietnam. A simple double difference estimate suggests that the project's net contribution to rehabilitated road increments is close to zero, suggesting complete displacement of funding. However, with better controls for the endogeneity of project placement the authors find much less evidence of fungibility, with displacement accounting for around one-third of the aid. The results point to the importance of dealing with selection bias in assessing project aid fungibility. 2012-06-22T18:46:22Z 2012-06-22T18:46:22Z 2005-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/03/5678946/donors-paid-micro-evidence-fungibility-development-project-aid http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8819 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3542 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 Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam |
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ACCOUNTING AGGREGATES COMMUNES COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES COMPETITIVE BIDDING CONTRACTORS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA COLLECTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISTRICTS DWELLING EARTH ROADS ENDOWMENTS EVALUATION METHODS EXPENDITURE FUNGIBILITY GOOD GOVERNANCE HOUSEHOLDS IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INTERVENTION LIVELIHOOD LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MATCHING MATCHING METHODS OUTCOME INDICATORS PASSENGER PMU POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS PROJECT EVALUATION PROJECT IMPACTS REFLEXIVE COMPARISONS ROAD CHARACTERISTICS ROAD DENSITY ROAD IMPROVEMENTS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD LENGTH ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD QUALITY ROAD REHABILITATION ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ROUTINE ROAD MAINTENANCE RURAL AREAS RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SELECTION BIAS SURVEYING TERRAIN TRANSPORT TREATMENT EFFECTS VILLAGES WAGE INCOME |
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ACCOUNTING AGGREGATES COMMUNES COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES COMPETITIVE BIDDING CONTRACTORS COUNTERFACTUAL DATA COLLECTION DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISTRICTS DWELLING EARTH ROADS ENDOWMENTS EVALUATION METHODS EXPENDITURE FUNGIBILITY GOOD GOVERNANCE HOUSEHOLDS IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INTERVENTION LIVELIHOOD LIVING CONDITIONS LIVING STANDARDS MATCHING MATCHING METHODS OUTCOME INDICATORS PASSENGER PMU POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS PROJECT EVALUATION PROJECT IMPACTS REFLEXIVE COMPARISONS ROAD CHARACTERISTICS ROAD DENSITY ROAD IMPROVEMENTS ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD LENGTH ROAD MAINTENANCE ROAD QUALITY ROAD REHABILITATION ROUTINE MAINTENANCE ROUTINE ROAD MAINTENANCE RURAL AREAS RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL ROADS RURAL TRANSPORT SELECTION BIAS SURVEYING TERRAIN TRANSPORT TREATMENT EFFECTS VILLAGES WAGE INCOME van de Walle, Dominique Cratty, Dorothyjean Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid |
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Recipient government responses to development project aid have typically been studied at high levels of aggregation, using cross-country comparisons and/or aggregate time series data. Yet increasingly the relevant decisions are being made at the local level, in response to specific community-level projects. The authors use local-level data to test for fungibility of World Bank financing of rural road rehabilitation targeted to specific geographic areas of Vietnam. A simple double difference estimate suggests that the project's net contribution to rehabilitated road increments is close to zero, suggesting complete displacement of funding. However, with better controls for the endogeneity of project placement the authors find much less evidence of fungibility, with displacement accounting for around one-third of the aid. The results point to the importance of dealing with selection bias in assessing project aid fungibility. |
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van de Walle, Dominique Cratty, Dorothyjean |
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van de Walle, Dominique Cratty, Dorothyjean |
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van de Walle, Dominique |
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Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid |
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Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid |
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Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid |
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Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid |
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Do Donors Get What They Paid For? Micro Evidence on the Fungibility of Development Project Aid |
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do donors get what they paid for? micro evidence on the fungibility of development project aid |
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World Bank: Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/03/5678946/donors-paid-micro-evidence-fungibility-development-project-aid http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8819 |
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