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OverviewThis book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects and policies on local economies. Projects and policies often create spillovers within project areas. LEWIE uses simulation methods to quantify these spillovers. It has become a complement to randomized control trials (RCTs), as governments and donors become interested in documenting impacts beyond the treated, comparing the likely impacts of alternative interventions, and designing complementary interventions to influence program and policy impacts. It is also a tool for impact evaluation where RCTs are not feasible.Chapters 1-4 motivate and present the basics of impact simulation, including how to design a LEWIE model, how to estimate the model, and how to obtain the necessary data. The remaining chapters provide a diversity of interesting real-world applications and extensions of the basic models. The applications include evaluations of the impacts of cash transfers for the poor, ecotourism, global food-price shocks, irrigation projects, migration, and corruption. Each chapter provide readers with the tools they need to conduct their own local economy-wide impact evaluations. All models and data used in this book are available on-line. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. Edward Taylor (Professor, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis) , Mateusz J. Filipski (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.506kg ISBN: 9780198707882ISBN 10: 0198707886 Pages: 332 Publication Date: 10 July 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Foundations for Local Economy-wide Impact Evaluation 3: A Continuum of Models for Any Situation 4: Data for LEWIE 5: What's the Roatán Reef Worth? 6: Economy-wide Cost-benefit Analysis 7: Galápagos: The Myth of Eco-tourism 8: Evaluating the Impacts 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? 11: Modeling Regional Impacts of an Irrigation Project in Tanzania 12: Gender and Saffron Price Shocks in Morocco's Atlas Mountains 13: International Migration and the Impacts of the Great Recession in Rural Mexico 14: The True Cost of Corruption 15: ConclusionsReviewsAuthor InformationJ. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Director of the Center on Rural Economies of the Americas and Pacific Rim (REAP) at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches courses on international development economics and econometric methods. He is also co-editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and founder of the alternative textbook initiative, RebelText.org. Taylor has written extensively on the economy-wide impacts of agricultural and development policies and on immigration. He co-authored Village Economies: The Design, Estimation and Use of Villagewide Economic Models (Cambridge University Press) and Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millenium (Oxford University Press). He is listed in Who's Who in Economics and has advised a number of foreign governments and international development agencies on matters related to economic development. Mateusz J. Filipski is a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC, where he is part of the Development Strategy and Governance Division. He is a graduate of the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Before joining IFPRI, he was a consultant for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He has authored or co-authored a number of publications on impact evaluation of rural development programs and policies, and routinely works as a reviewer for the leading journals in the field. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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