Are Irrigation Rehabilitation Projects Good for Poor Farmers in Peru? / Datar, Gayatri
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2009Beschreibung: Online-Ressource (38 p)Andere physische Formen: Datar, Gayatri: Are Irrigation Rehabilitation Projects Good for Poor Farmers in Peru? DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5154Online-Ressourcen: Zusammenfassung: This paper analyzes changes in agricultural production and economic welfare of farmers in rural Peru resulting from a large irrigation infrastructure rehabilitation project. The analysis uses a ten-year district panel and a spatial regression discontinuity approach to measure the causal effect of the intervention. While general impacts are modest, the analysis shows that the project is progressive - poor farmers consistently benefit more than non-poor farmers. Farmers living in districts with a rehabilitated irrigation site experience positive labor dynamics, in terms of income and agricultural jobs. Poor farmers increase their total income by more thanPPN: PPN: 834965372Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLDieser Titel hat keine Exemplare
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