Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches

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In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges that researchers face in such interventions. Furthermore, it suggests a particular approach to assess impacts before an intervention is implemented by surveying the yet non-electrified target region of the project and, in addition, an already electrified region. Besides delivering robust evidence on impacts, results from such ex-ante evaluations provide insights for the project design, thereby reducing the gap between evaluation researchers and practitioners.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-151-7
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 136

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Project Analysis ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
• Subject: Impact evaluation ; ex-ante impact assessment ; electricity access ; rural development ; Elektrizitätspolitik ; Ländlicher Raum ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Projektbewertung ; Wissenschaftliche Methode ; Theorie ; Entwicklungsländer ; Afrika

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Peters, Jörg
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/29948
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET