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...

The stated aim of much development assistance is the reduction of poverty. This book examines how development interventions might be more effectively targeted to achieve this aim. Part One provides an overview of planning for poverty reduction, and evidence on the extent and causes of poverty....

1. Introduction -- 2. Main Features of Projects, Project Resource Statements and Financial Statements -- 3. Project Criteria and Differences between Financial and Economic Analysis -- 4. National Economic Returns and Use of Economic Prices -- 5. Comparing Alternative Approaches -- 6. Economic...