Do you know about estimates of the benefit-to-cost ratio of sectoral transformation interventions? For reference, cash transfers to poor households in Kenya had one of 2.4. I did a quick search, and found Copenhagen Consensus Center’s 12 best investment papers for the sustainable development goals. One of them is about agricultural research and development, and found a benefit-to-cost ratio of 33.
I don’t know of any such estimates, mainly because academic papers don’t tend to focus on any tangible intervention and when they do there’s no cost measurement. I’m pretty bullish on agricultural R&D though, so nice to see that IFPRI paper.
Hi Karthik,
Do you know about estimates of the benefit-to-cost ratio of sectoral transformation interventions? For reference, cash transfers to poor households in Kenya had one of 2.4. I did a quick search, and found Copenhagen Consensus Center’s 12 best investment papers for the sustainable development goals. One of them is about agricultural research and development, and found a benefit-to-cost ratio of 33.
I don’t know of any such estimates, mainly because academic papers don’t tend to focus on any tangible intervention and when they do there’s no cost measurement. I’m pretty bullish on agricultural R&D though, so nice to see that IFPRI paper.