Forget the weights, who gets the benefits? How to bring a poverty focus to the economic analysis of projects

Journal of International Development

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 581-595

  Potts, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT;

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EID: 0032830501     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199906)11:4<581::AID-JID597>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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