Current Issues in Project Analysis for Development

Edited by John Weiss and David Potts

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Abstract: This major work brings together authors with experience of both academic and operational project work to focus on issues such as the shadow exchange rate, the shadow wage, the discount rate and assessment of poverty impact and risk, as well as problems relating to specific sectors covering environmental projects, transport, education and health. There are also general chapters on the experience of semi-input–output-based estimation of shadow prices and the relevance of shadow pricing techniques to the context of developed economies in the EU. An overview by the editors sets out the evolution of the literature and highlights current issues. The general conclusion is that project analysis techniques remain relevant, albeit within a very different development context to that in which they were originally envisaged to be applied.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781848445352
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Editors’ Introduction

David Potts and John Weiss

Ch 2 Estimating a Shadow Exchange Rate

Elio Londero

Ch 3 Shadow Wages Rates in a Changing World

David Potts

Ch 4 Semi-Input–Output Methods of Shadow Price Estimation: Are They Still Useful?

David Potts

Ch 5 Projects and the MDGs: Estimating Poverty Impact

Manabu Fujimura

Ch 6 Projects and Risk

John Weiss and Keith Ward

Ch 7 Discounting: Does it Ensure Intergenerational Equity?

Erhun Kula

Ch 8 Environmental Valuation

P.B. Anand

Ch 9 Assessing the Benefits of New or Improved Roads

Chris Nash

Ch 10 Project Appraisal in Health: Cost Effectiveness Approaches

John Weiss

Ch 11 Measuring Benefits from Education

David Potts

Ch 12 Cost–Benefit Analysis Traditions: The Approach of EU Regional Policy

Massimo Florio and Silvia Vignetti

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