The theoretical economic rationale jor public sector intervention into markets no longer develops a sufficient justification for implementing programs. If the "rationale issue "is to be resolved in program evaluations, it should be raised in the context of a debate informed by empirical attempts...

Conflicts enlarge the scope of the considerations that need to be addressed by program and project evaluations. The enlargement of a problem's boundaries may include shifts in the ethical premises used to assign values to the plan's indirect consequences. This review of the conflict generated by...