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The Appraisal and Evaluation of Structural Adjustment Lending: Some Questions of Method

In: Financial Fragility, Debt and Economic Reforms

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  • John Toye

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The difference between appraisal and evaluation is that appraisal is prospective, looking forward to anticipate what might happen as a result of undertaking a project or making an adjustment loan, while evaluation is retrospective, looking back at what has happened after a project has been completed or an adjustment loan made. Because, before 1980, most development aid was for projects, the creation of various methods of appraising and evaluating projects was the great priority of the 1970s. For projects, the methods of appraisal and evaluation are relatively well known and closely connected with each other. World Bank methods are described by Ray (1984) and Overseas Development Association methods by the Overseas Development Association (1988). They involve the calculation of a prospective economic rate of return in advance for appraisal purposes and then calculating an actual economic rate of return for purposes of evaluation. Both of these calculations can be done with and without information on the distribution of the net benefits of the project across the affected population.

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  • John Toye, 1996. "The Appraisal and Evaluation of Structural Adjustment Lending: Some Questions of Method," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sunanda Sen (ed.), Financial Fragility, Debt and Economic Reforms, chapter 6, pages 111-132, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13801-2_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13801-2_7
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