Publication
Oct 2010
The authors study a high-profile case: the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an experimental and intensive package intervention to spark sustained local economic development in rural Africa. We illustrate the benefits of rigorous impact evaluation in this setting by showing that estimates of the project’s effects depend heavily on the evaluation method. Comparing trends at the MVP intervention sites in Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria to trends in the surrounding areas yields much more modest estimates of the project’s effects than the before-versus-after comparisons published thus far by the MVP.
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Author | Michael A Clemens, Gabriel Demombynes |
Series | CGD Working Papers |
Issue | 225 |
Publisher | Center for Global Development (CGD) |
Copyright | © 2010 Center for Global Development (CGD) |