The objective of this document is to provide guidance on the preparation of the Economic Analysis Annex that must be completed with Bank Proposals for Operational Development (PODs) and included as an electronic link to the POD. For the Economic Analysis, project teams have the option of...

This book surveys and discusses some of the main theoretical issues raised by adaptation to climate changes and describes in detail an empirical case study on the metrics and the estimates of related costs and benefits. The book argues that a basic distinction should be made between adaptation...

The objective of the paper is to analyze current approaches to the assessment of e-Government projects as the specific public projects and to suggest how to improve these approaches in order to eliminate their shortcomings. The nonnormative theoretical methods are used to analyze empirical...

This paper looks at how various project- and client-related factors determine the non-financial success of EBRD investments. Non-financial project success is defined as the extent to which transition objectives, such as the demonstration of new financing methods or the expansion of competitive...

The last decade has witnessed the proliferation of crowdsourcing in various academic domains including strategic management, computer science, or IS research. Numerous companies have drawn on this concept and leveraged the wisdom of crowds for various purposes. However, not all crowdsourcing...

This paper illustrates an innovative approach to financial modeling of engineering decisionmaking and industrial projects. The approach is a minimal one, grounded as it is on three notions, two laws, and one matrix that combines them, called Split-Screen Matrix (SSM). This split-screen approach...

This paper employs the newly conceived accounting-and-finance engineering system(AFES) described in a previous paper (Magni 2023, “The Split-Screen Approach for Project Appraisal (Part I: The Theory)”), addressed to the analysis of capital asset investments. In this second part, we show how...

The study was conducted in N-B road improvement project funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and implemented through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) . The research aims to focus on status of safety and health risk level of workers, assess the safety and health facilities provided to...