Impact evaluation of rural road projects
- 4 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Development Effectiveness
- Vol. 1 (1), 15-36
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19439340902727701
Abstract
Very few of the (many) aid-financed rural road projects in developing countries have been the subject of rigorous impact evaluations. Assessing the welfare impacts of rural roads poses a number of problems, with implications for data collection and evaluation methods. This paper surveys the problems and discusses some practical implementation issues related specifically to conducting an impact evaluation of a rural roads project that is assigned to some geographic areas but not to others.Keywords
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