This chapter summarizes the economic principles that would help evaluate individual investment projects, general expenditure programs, government policies, and the regulation of economic activities. The objective of the project and program evaluation is to measure the net benefit of a project or...

Many things inform a country’s choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this book, Robin Boadway examines the role of optimal tax analysis in informing and influencing tax policy design....