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Poverty Targeting, Distributional Effects and Project Analysis

In: Development Planning and Poverty Reduction

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  • Elio Londero

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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, economists devoted considerable attention to the distributional effects of projects. This attention reflected long-standing concerns of applied welfare economists about the distributive implications of prescriptive judgements (Little 1950). Closer to practice, there were attempts to bring into the open the interpersonal and intertemporal value judgements inherent in investment decisions, using cost—benefit methods in a form intended to be suitable for practical application (Marglin 1967). These efforts, coupled with the perception by international observers that development institutions were not reaching the poor as much as desired, led to the publication of two influential books proposing specific methodologies to bring into the open these value judgements (Little and Mirrlees 1974, UNIDO 1972).

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  • Elio Londero, 2003. "Poverty Targeting, Distributional Effects and Project Analysis," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Potts & Patrick Ryan & Anna Toner (ed.), Development Planning and Poverty Reduction, chapter 12, pages 179-199, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-4374-3_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403943743_12
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