Item non-response occurs when respondents fail to provide answers to some or all of the questions posed during survey interviews. The standard procedure is to exclude such responses from the econometric analysis. This may be appropriate if the sample included does not differ significantly from...

A key decision problem facing several programme officers of many donor agencies in developing countries like Cameroon, is how to price intended financing schemes for community participation. This paper provides further evidence on how useful the contingent valuation method (CVM) can be for such...

For most public projects, especially environmental projects that are partly funded by multilateral donor agencies, cost--benefit analysis has become a routine procedure for the approval of project funds. These agencies are very keen to know whether the target community or country possesses the...