Project Planning and Analysis for Development / David Potts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potts, David, Author.

Contributor:

Potts, David, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this comprehensive, practical guide to project planning and appraisal in developing countries, David Potts focuses on economic and financial analysis, but also gives serious weight to such key factors as sustainability and social impact. Part 1 of the book considers a range of approaches to project identification and design and introduces basic techniques for determining costs and benefits. Part 2 provides an outline for the financial analysis of commercial projects, incorporating the issue of possible noncommercial objectives; here, Potts includes a discussion of methods for assessing projects that involve small-scale producers. Part 3 explores the economic and social analysis of projects. The final section of the book addresses the practicalities of dealing with risk and uncertainty in project planning, including ways to account for the realities of inflation and exchange-rate fluctuations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

PART 1. Project Identification and Design

2 Projects and the Planning Process

3 Project Identification and Formulation

4 Basic Principles of Project Analysis

PART 2. Financial Analysis

5 Financial Analysis for Commercial Projects

6 Analysis of Incentive and Response for Small-Scale Producers

PART 3. Economic and Social Analysis

7 Economic Analysis: An Overview

8 Linkages, Multipliers, and Externalities

9 Benefit Estimation in the Social and Infrastructure Sectors

10 Opportunity Cost and the Basis for Economic Valuation

11 Shadow Prices and Shadow Pricing Systems

12 The Rate of Discount and the Value of Investment

13 Alternative Approaches to Economic Analysis and the Distribution of Costs and Benefits

14 The Limitations of Economic Analysis

PART 4. Allowing Assumptions to Vary

15 Sensitivity and Risk Analysis

16 Changes in Prices and Exchange Rates

PART 5. Conclusion

17 Project Planning and Appraisal for Development

Bibliography

Index

About the Book

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

1-68585-038-3

OCLC:

1334343716