This chapter summarizes the economic principles that would help evaluate individual investment projects, general expenditure programs, government policies, and the regulation of economic activities. The objective of the project and program evaluation is to measure the net benefit of a project or...

This paper reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for, politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints...