Aiming high and falling low: The SADA-Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Masset, Edoardo; Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge; Acharya, Arnab
• 署名单位: University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Autonomous University of Madrid; University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Max Planck Society
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102427
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: Millennium villages project; Integrated rural development; Millennium development goals

摘要

This article assesses the impact of the Northern Ghana Millennium Village Project. We estimate project effects on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) indicators using a difference-in-difference approach applied to matched villages and households using a sub-classification of the propensity score. The project improved some MDG indicators but, with few exceptions, impacts were small and core welfare indicators, such as monetary poverty, undernutrition and child mortality, remained unaffected. We found no spillover effects of the project to neighbouring areas and no displacements of development expenditure by local government and NGO5. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of the intervention and concluded that MVP did not produce the expected cost-saving synergies. We attribute the lack of impact to poor project design, redundancy of the interventions, and excessively high expectations.