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Title Long Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27q1583b
Date 2021
Author(s) Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward; Voors, Maarten
Abstract We evaluate the long-run effects of a decentralized approach to economic development, called community driven development (CDD), a prominent strategy for delivering foreign aid. Notably we revisit a randomized CDD program in Sierra Leone 11 years after launch. We estimate large persistent gains in local public goods and market activity, and modest positive effects on institutions. There is suggestive evidence that CDD slightly improved communities' response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic. We compare estimates to the forecasts of experts from Sierra Leone and abroad, working in policy and academia, and find that local policymakers are overly optimistic about CDD's effectiveness.
Subject(s) Foreign aid; community driven development; governance; economic development
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Format application/pdf
Rights public
Identifier qt27q1583b
Repository Berkeley - University of California
Added to C-A: 2021-08-30;09:54:38