Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Foreword / Strange, Larry -- List of Contributors -- PART I: THE CONTEXT -- 1. Assessing China’s Impact on Poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An Introduction / Jalilian, Hossein / Flower, Benjamin C. R. -- 2. Assessing...

Poverty targeting programs can in principle be assessed as projects using the tools of either cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness analysis. In practice where quantitative assessments have been made they are principally a form of cost-effectiveness calculations based on costs per unit of benefit...