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Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects

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Hardcopy price: $10.00

ISBN: 971-561-127-3
Pub. Date: 1997
Out of Print

Provides guidelines for ADB staff, consultants, and officials of developing member countries in assessing project proposals for economic viability and financial sustainability. It includes sections on environmental costs and benefits, the distribution of net benefits, and sensitivity and risk analysis. 215 pages.

See also Economic Analysis of Projects, 2001 - CD-ROM.

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Contents

  1. Introduction

  2. Background

  3. The Economic Rationale of a Project

  4. Macroeconomic and Sectoral Context

  5. An Integrated Approach To Economic Analysis

    1. Scope of Economic Analysis

    2. The Project Framework

    3. Financial and Economic Analysis

  6. Identification and Quantification of Costs and Benefits

    1. General

    2. Identification and Quantification of Benefits

    3. Identification and Quantification of Costs

  7. Valuation of Economic Costs and Benefits

    1. General Considerations

    2. Role of World Prices

    3. Economic Prices of Traded Goods and Services

    4. Economic Prices of Nontraded Goods and Services

    5. The Economic Price of Labor

    6. The Economic Price of Land

    7. Bringing Economic Prices To A Common Base

    8. Conversion Factors

    9. Economic Viability: A Procedure

  8. Large Projects, Linkages, and National Affordability

  9. Least-Cost and Cost-Effective Analysis

  10. Investment Criteria: Economic Viability

    1. Project Decisions

    2. Choosing Between Alternatives When Benefits Are Not Valued

    3. Choosing Between Alternatives When Benefits Are Valued

    4. Testing The Economic Viability of The Best Alternative

    5. The Chosen Discount Rate

    6. Project Investments and The Budget

  11. Discount Rate

  12. Uncertainty: Sensitivity and Risk Analysis

  13. Sustainability of Project Effects

    1. Financial Sustainability

    2. Environmental Sustainability

  14. Distribution of Project Effects

  15. Projects and Policies

    1. Comparing Financial and Economic Prices

    2. Effective Protection Or Effective Assistance

    3. The Real Exchange Rate

  16. Appendices

    17. Appendix 1: Key Questions For The Economic Analysis of Projects

    Appendix 2: Project Economic Rationale: Market and Nonmarket Failures

    Appendix 3: The Project Framework

    Appendix 4: Identification and Measurement of Consumer Surplus

    Appendix 5: Treatment of Working Capital

    Appendix 6: Depletion Premium

    Appendix 7: The Use of Constant Prices In The Economic Analysis of Projects

    Appendix 8: General Methodology For Building Up Project Statements

    Appendix 9: Economic Evaluation of Project Output and Input

    Appendix 10: Economic Price of Traded Goods and Services

    Appendix 11: Valuation of Nontraded Outputs and Inputs

    Appendix 12: Shadow Wage Rate and The Shadow Water Rate Factor

    Appendix 13: The Economic Price of Land

    Appendix 14: Treatment of Resettlement Components of Projects

    Appendix 15: Calculating Economic Prices At The Domestic Market Price Or World Market Price Levels

    Appendix 16: Estimating The Shadow Exchange Rate Factor and The Standard (Or Average) Conversion Factor

    Appendix 17: Example of An Economic Rate of Return: An Irrigation Rehabilitation Project

    Appendix 18: Effect On Net Foreign Exchange and Budget Flows: An Example

    Appendix 19: Least-Cost Analysis and Choosing Between Alternatives

    Appendix 20: Estimating The Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital

    Appendix 21: The Treatment of Uncertainty In The Economic Analysis of Projects: Sensitivity and Risk Analysis

    Appendix 22: User Charges, Cost Recovery, and Demand Management: An Example For Piped Water

    Appendix 23: Financial Returns To Project Participants: An Illustration

    Appendix 24: Economic Evaluation of Environmental Impacts

    Appendix 25: Distribution of Project Effects

    Appendix 26: Impact On Poverty Reduction

    Appendix 27: Difference Between Economic and Financial Prices

    Appendix 28: Use of Economic Prices In Measuring Effective Protection

    Appendix 29: Exchange Rate Issues In Project Analysis

  17. Others

    18. Abbreviations

    Glossary of Terms

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