SOCECOL 10 Lecture 5: Experiments, Surveys, and Sampling
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Major debate: is foreign aid really helping developing countries: sachs (2005): wealthy countries should increase aid to . 7% of gnp ( billion annually in 2002) to eliminate global extreme poverty by 2025 an unmet agreement since 1970. Us: approximately . 18% of gnp for foreign aid in 2013. Millennium villages project: began in kenya in 2004, ambition: big interventions to break the cycle of poverty. Sachs: aid fails because it lacks depth of commitment: million raised in initial round, 2015 mvp aid to 500,000 people in ten countries. Other countries: ethiopia, tanzania, uganda, rwanda, malawi, nigeria, Senegal, mali, ghana: types of interventions farmer assistance. Public goods: water, electricity, equipment to mill grain, ambulances school lunches. Hiv/aids medicine: cost: about per person annually argument: treat it like an experiment, randomized controlled trials (rcts): very popular in development research today, practical: Compare impacts to alternatives intervention complexity: how do we know what is causing what? experimental approach: mvp is one treatment.
