From the Ground Up: An Impact Evaluation of the Community Infrastructure Upgrading Programme in Dar es Salaam
2015/04/21
研討會日期 : 2015-04-21
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Yu-Hsuan Su
主持人 : Professor Cheng-Ying Yang
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Su received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Washington, Seattle, USA. in 2014. She is currently an Assistant Professor at National Chengchi University. Her primary research interests are in development and labor economics.
演講摘要 : Developing countries spend significant amounts of their budget annually on slum upgrading activities, with the broad objectives of alleviating poverty, improving health and well-being and strengthening the social fabric within these communities in a holistic and integrated manner. While rigorous research is beginning to emerge on the effects of slum upgrading on diarrhea, acute respiratory illness (ARI) and the crowding out of private investments, very little is known about the broader impacts of the upgrading process that serve to motivate these interventions in the first place. This paper evaluates the Community Infrastructure Upgrading Programme (CIUP) financed by the World Bank with the aim of improving the lives of slum dwellers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania through targeted investments in community infrastructure such as roads, drainage systems and streetlights. We find that the CIUP interventions increased household sizes and decreased out-migration, halved diarrhea rates for children under 5, and increased female school enrollment rates, but did not have significant impacts on employment, business operations, income and expenditure, private investment or social cohesion. We review possible confounding factors that influence the reliability of these estimates and present the results in light of these methodological constraints.
