Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements and Abbreviations

1.

Introduction

2.

Goals and Objectives of Infrastructural Interventions in Rural Areas

Types of Infrastructural Investment in Rural Areas

Objective

Integrating Infrastructural Investment with National Planning

Summary and Conclusion

3.

Impact of Rural Infrastructural Investment

Introduction

The Impact of Infrastructural Intervention on Poverty Reduction

Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction – The Process

Empirical Evidence

Summary and Conclusion

4.

Measurement/Enumeration of Benefits and Costs

Introduction

Enumeration/Classification of Benefits and Costs

Effects and Impacts

Fundamentals of Project Evaluation and Benefit-Cost Analysis

Measurement of Benefits and Costs

Social Benefits-Cost Analysis

Contingent Valuation Method

Measuring Benefits of Transport Development

Measuring Transport Benefits – Recent Developments

Economic Analysis – Producer Surplus

Approach in Transport BCA

Equivalence of National Income, Producer Surplus, Consumer Surplus Approaches

Integrated Economic Analysis

Project Evaluation – The Current Practice

Summary and Conclusions

5.

Indicators of Benefits of Infrastructural Interventions

Introduction

Monitoring and Evaluation of Anti-poverty Programmes

Impact Monitoring and Performance Indicators

Independent Indicators Approach

Director Indicators

Indirect Indicators

Combining Indicators

Summary and Conclusions

6.

Techniques for Evaluation of Infrastructural Interventions

Introduction

Benefit-Cost Analysis – An Attempt and Capturing

Social Benefits and Costs

Methods of Project Appraisal

Summary and Conclusions

7.

Conclusions

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