Côte d’Ivoire

The purpose of this paper is to apply to a concrete country case the approach of economic analysis of projects proposed by Lyn Squire and Herman G. van der Tak in their... Show More + book Economic Analysis of Projects (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975). After a brief introduction to the principles of economic and social analysis of projects the present study estimates shadow price parameters for the Ivory Coast which permit the evaluation of projects from an efficiency as well as from a "social" point of view, where the former takes no account of the distributive or growth implication of project selection, while the latter does so explicity by introducing distributive weights for private costs and benefits. The parameter values are based on the author's best interpretation of the available information base at the time of writing (Spring 1974). Show Less -