| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 313 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) |
| Contents |
Cover; Beyond Experiments in Development Economics; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Foundations for Local Economy-wide Impact Evaluation; 3 A Continuum of Models for Any Situation; 4 Data for LEWIE; 5 What's a Reef Worth?; 6 Economy-wide Cost-benefit Analysis; 7 Galápagos: The Myth of Ecotourism; 8 Evaluating the Impact of Global Food Price Shocks in Rural Guatemala; 9 Spillover Effects of Social Cash Transfers: Lesotho's Child Grants Program; 10 Did Malawi Prove the Experts Wrong? |
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11 Modeling the Regional Impacts of an Irrigation Project in Tanzania12 Gender and Saffron Price Shocks in Morocco's Atlas Mountains; 13 International Migration, Remittances, and the Impacts of the Great Recession in Rural Mexico; 14 The True Cost of Corruption; 15 Conclusion; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
J. Edward Taylor and Mateusz J. Filipski provide readers with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects and policies on local economies, together with a diversity of applications of these tools - from poverty programs to global price shocks, irrigation projects, eco-tourism, migration, production subsidies, and government corruption |
| Analysis |
Development Economics |
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Ontwikkelingseconomie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 3, 2014) |
| Subject |
Development economics -- Evaluation
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Economic development projects -- Evaluation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Filipski, Mateusz J., author.
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| ISBN |
9780191783074 |
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0191783072 |
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9780191017544 |
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019101754X |
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