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| Author:
| van de Walle, Dominique ; Ren Mu ; |
| Document Date:
| 2007/02/01 |
| Document Type:
| Policy Research Working Paper |
| Report Number:
| WPS4133 |
| Volume No:
| 1 of 1 |
| Country:
| Vietnam ; |
| Doc Name:
| Fungibility and the flypaper effect of project aid : micro-evidence for Vietnam |
| Keywords:
| aggregates, bridges, communes, district roads, districts, drainage, earth road, earth roads, equations, households, income, inspection, intervention, length of roads, Ministry of Transport, motor vehicle, passenger, passenger transport, path, paved roads, poor roads, population density, railway, road, road building, road construction, road improvements, road infrastructure, road length, road links, road maintenance, road network, road quality, road sector, road types, road works, roads, routine maintenance, rural road, rural road density, rural road rehabilitation, rural roads, Rural Transport, signs, Surveying, tax, Transport, types of road, types of roads, vehicle access, villages
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| Language:
| English |
| Region:
| East Asia and Pacific ; |
| Rep Title:
| Fungibility and the flypaper effect of project aid : micro-evidence for Vietnam |
| Topics:
| Transport ; Rural Development ; Communities and Human Settlements |
| SubTopics:
| Rural Roads & Transport ; Transport Economics Policy & Planning ; Rural Transport ; Housing & Human Habitats ; Roads & Highways |
| Unit Owning:
| Development Research Group (DECRG) |
| Collection Title: | Policy, Research working paper
; no. WPS 4133 |
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| While most economists assume that aid is fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The authors study recipient government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World Bank-financed project. They estimate the impact of a rural road rehabilitation project in Vietnam on the kilometers of roads actually rehabilitated and built. Using local-level survey data collected for this purpose, the authors test whether the evidence supports the standard economic argument that there will be little or no impact on rural roads rehabilitated, given fungibility. They find evidence that, although project aid impacts on rehabilitated road kilometers were less than intended, more roads were built in project areas. The results suggest that there was fungibility within the sector, but that aid largely stuck to that sector. |
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