Ms. Tsakok [1] has done a useful job in summarising and commenting on the various estimates of shadow prices which appeared in the symposium on shadow pricing in Pakistan, published in the Summer 1979 issue of this Review. However, her discussion of my paper in the symposium [3] 1 is...

Recent developments in the methodology of socialcost -benefit analysis(SCBA) have centred on the use of weights to revalue the income flows created by projects. These developments reflect the increased concern expressed by many governmentsin the less developed countries (IDCs) about the problems...

Like many countries, Sri Lanka has used Export Processing Zones as a means of promoting manufactured exports. This article uses a cost-benefit approach to estimate the returns to the national economy from the main zones. Overall, the zones are found to be economically efficient with an economic...