SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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I. Introduction | ||
1 |
Introduction to Project Evaluation and Course Overview The Development Planning Tradition |
Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 1 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997. ISBN: 1858981948. Jenkins, G. P. "Project Analysis and the World Bank." American Economic Review 87, no. 2 (May 1997): pp. 38-42. |
2 | The Project Cycle: Project Identification and Appraisal |
Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 2 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997. ISBN: 1858981948. Sierra Leone PID (PDF) Malawi Health PID (PDF) |
II. Financial Appraisal | ||
3 | Development of Financial Cash Flows for Project Evaluation: Investment Plan | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 3 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 1-10. ISBN: 1858981948. |
4 | Development of Financial Cash Flows for Project Evaluation: Operating Plan, Analysis from Alternative Points of View | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 3 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 10-18. ISBN: 1858981948. |
5 | Discounting and Alternative Investment Criteria | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 4 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 1-15. ISBN: 1858981948. |
6 | Alternative Investment Criteria and Problems of Durability and Correction Procedures | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 4 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 15-22. ISBN: 1858981948. |
7 | Scale, Timing, and Interdependencies in a Project - 1 | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 5 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 1-15. ISBN: 1858981948. |
8 | Scale, Timing, and Interdependencies in a Project - 2 | |
9 | Forecasting and the Treatment of Inflation - 1 | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 6 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997. ISBN: 1858981948. |
10 | Forecasting and the Treatment of Inflation - 2 | |
11 | Risk Analysis | Belli, Pedro, et. al. "Risk and Sensitivity Analysis." Chapter 10 in Economic Analysis of Investment Operations: Analytical Tools and Practical Applications (Wbi Development Studies). Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. ISBN: 0821348507. |
12 | Project Financing and Risk Management |
Savvides, S. "Risk Analysis in Investment Appraisal." Project Appraisal 9. Curry, Steve, and John Weiss. "Uncertainty." Chapter 9 in Project Analysis in Developing Countries. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. ISBN: 0333792912. |
13 | Debrief Problem Set 4: Risk Analysis | |
III. Economic Appraisal and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | ||
14 | Overview of Economic Analysis of Investment Decisions |
Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 7 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997. ISBN: 1858981948. Curry, and Weiss. "National Economic Returns and the Use of Economic Prices." Chapter 4 in Project Analysis in Developing Countries. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. ISBN: 0333792912. |
15 | Measurement of Economic Benefits and Costs in Undistorted Markets; with Sales Taxes and Subsidies |
Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 8 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997. ISBN: 1858981948. –––. Chapter 9 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 1-15. |
16 | Measurement of Economic Benefits and Costs in Distorted Markets: Taxes, Rationing, Monopolies | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 9 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 15-25. ISBN: 1858981948. |
17 | Measurement of Economic Benefits and Costs in Distorted Markets: Tradables and Forex | Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 10 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997. ISBN: 1858981948. |
18 | Economic Opportunity Cost of Capital: Discount Rates |
Jenkins, G. P., and A. C. Harberger. Chapter 12 in Program on Investment Appraisal and Management Manual - Cost Benefit Analysis of Investment Decisions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997, pp. 1-16. ISBN: 1858981948. Sjaastad, L. A., and D. L. Wisecarver. "The Social Cost of Public Finance." Journal of Political Economy 85, no. 3 (1977): 513-547. Edwards, S. "Country Risk, Foreign Borrowing, and the Social Discount Rate in an Open-Developing Economy." Journal of International Money and Finance 5, (March 1986): s79-s96. (Supplement) |
19 | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis |
Belli, Pedro, et. al. Chapter 7 and 9 in Economic Analysis of Investment Operations: Analytical Tools and Practical Applications (Wbi Development Studies). Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001. ISBN: 0821348507. Vietnam - Second Rural Transport Project World Bank CE Project Appraisal Document (PDF - 5 MB) |
IV. Critical Analysis of Quantitative Appraisal Techniques | ||
20 | Social-Distributive Appraisal of Projects |
Harberger, A. C. "Basic Needs versus Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis." Economic Development and Cultural Change 32, no. 3 (April 1984): 455-474. Curry, and Weiss. "Income Distribution Effects of Projects." Chapter 11 in Project Analysis in Developing Countries. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. ISBN: 0333792912. |
21 | Institutional Dimensions: Local Politics and Capacity - Project Implementation, Monitoring |
Smoke, P. and H. Evans. "Institutionalizing Decentralized Project Planning Under Kenya's Program for Rural Trade and Production Centers." Third World Planning Review 15, no. 3 (1993): 221-247. Binnendijk, A. "Donor Experience with the Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Projects." In Methods for Social Analysis in Developing Countries. Edited by K. Finsterbush, J. Ingersoll, and L. Llewellyn. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990, pp. 165-185. ISBN: 081337829X. |
22 | Institutional Dimensions of Project Appraisal: the Funders |
Honadle, G. H. and S. T. Walker, and J. M. Silverman. "Dealing with Institutional and Organizational Realities." In Implementing Rural Development Projects. Edited by E. R. Morss and D. D. Gow. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985, pp. 33-63. ISBN: 0865319421. Nwagwu, E. O. C. "Budgeting for Development: the case of Nigeria." Public Budgeting and Finance 12, no. 1 (1992): 73-82. Alesina, A., and R. Perotti. "Fiscal Discipline and the Budget Process." American Economic Review 86, no. 2 (1996): 401-407. Tendler, J. "Undoing the poverty agenda and putting it back together: social policy, economic development, or what?" In Reinventing Foreign Aid. Edited by W. R. Easterly. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, pp. 1-12. (Forthcoming) |
23 | Project Appraisal and Project Evaluation | World Bank Evaluation Document (PDF - 2.8 MB) |
24 | Rational Analysis in the Field |
Peattie, L. "Representation." Chapter 6 in Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guyayana. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1987. ISBN: 0472080695. Cernea, M., ed. "Sociological Knowledge for Development Projects." In Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 3-21. ISBN: 0195204654. |
25 | Participation in Development Projects |
Finsterbusch, K., and W. Van Wicklin. "The Contribution of Beneficiary Participation to Development Project Effectiveness." Public Administration and Development 7 no. 1 (1987): 1-23. Chambers, R. "Participatory Rural Appraisal: Challenges, Potentials, and Paradigm." World Development 22, no. 10 (1994): 1437-1454. McFarquhar, A. "Environment Valuation, Project Appraisal and Political Consensus in the Third World." In Planning and Markets. Vol. 4. |
26 | Projects in Practice |
Lindblom, C. E. "The Science of Muddling Through." Public Administration Review 19, no. 2 (1959): 79-88. Hirschman, A. O. Development Projects Observed. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1967/1995, pp. 1-34. ISBN: 0815736525. |