Does Ignoring Heterogeneity in Impacts Distort Project Appraisals? An Experiment for Irrigation in Vietnam

Could the simplifying assumptions made in project appraisal be so far from the truth that the expected benefits of public investments are not realized? Using data for Vietnam, commonly used estimates of the benefits from irrigation investments base...

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Main Authors: Van de Walle, Dominique, Gunewardena, Dileni
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/01/17736783/ignoring-heterogeneity-impacts-distort-project-appraisals-experiment-irrigation-vietnam
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17219