Flexibility and Consistency in Project Evaluation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9725547
AutoresE J Mishan (autor correspondente)
Ano1974
Volume41
Fascículo161
Páginas81
Data de publicação1974-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2553426
OpenAlexW1980198524
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas3

Third World, and the respect in which each of the distinguished authors is justly held, it seems to me that these basic differences in method, possibly also in conception, of cost-benefit analysis should be made as explicit as possible. It should be noted that apart from the controversial methodological issues raised in this paper, Guidelines offers a more thorough treatment of cost-benefit techniques applied to poor countries than can be found today in any other volume or monograph. Though perhaps rather less accessible to the intelligent layman than the authors imagine, it is for the most part judiciously written and should be regarded as an essential work of reference for all students interested in project selection for economically backward countries. The lesser question, discussed in Section I, concerns the treatment of political and administrative constraints in the calculation of those national parameters that are derived wholly from economic principles. The more important question, treated in Section II, concerns the role, if any, in cost-benefit analysis of those national parameters that do not derive from familiar economic principles but are in effect politically determined

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