Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity?

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A Contingent Valuation of the 2012 London Olympic Games (2008, result): “Similar results have also been found with respect to other major sporting events, such as FIFA World Cups (see, for example, Baade & Matheson, 2004b).”
Mega-events as a Response to Poverty Reduction: The 2010 FIFA World Cup and its Urban Development Implications (2008, background): “The first suggests that “the increase in direct spending attributable to the games may be a ‘gross’ as opposed to a ‘net’ measure” (Matheson and Baade 2004:1090).”
The impact of mega-sport events on tourist arrivals (2011, background): “Our results therefore has important implications for projections of tourist arrivals to developing vis-à-vis developed host nations, where stark differences at the costbenefit level are often to be found (Matheson and Baade 2004; Lakshman 2008).”