Economics and Financing

Guide to Project Evaluation Part 6: Distributional (Equity) Effects

Publication no: AGPE06-05
ISBN: 1 921139 01 3
Published: 1 July 2005
Edition: 1
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Part 6 helps the practitioner to evaluate the distributional (equity) impacts of transport projects, i.e. the winners and losers of projects, and how these impacts can be traded with efficiency gains. The procedures/processes provided help the decision-maker to consider distributional effects of projects as part of the project evaluation process by comparing sets of efficiency outcomes of projects with desired social (equity) outcomes. An Equity Explorer?? software tool is provided as an integral component of Part 6 to demonstrate some of the principles of equity analysis and their application.

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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. WHAT ARE DISTRIBUTIONAL (EQUITY) EFFECTS?
3. WHAT IS EQUITY ASSESSMENT?
4. WHEN TO UNDERTAKE EQUITY ANALYSIS
- 4.1. Consideration of equity issues during project planning
- 4.2. Equity analysis during project evaluation
5. TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING WINNERS AND LOSERS
6. PROCESS FOR UNDERTAKING EQUITY ANALYSIS
- 6.1. Scoping
- 6.2. Profiling
- 6.3. Impact characterisation
- 6.4. Analysis
- 6.5. Response
7. INTER-GENERATIONAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL DISCOUNT
PART 6 COMMENTARIES
COMMENTARY A: EQUITY ANALYSIS IN CURRENT
COMMENTARY B: FOUNDATIONS OF EQUITY THEORY
COMMENTARY C: METHODS FOR TRADING EFFICIENCY
COMMENTARY D: TECHNIQUES TO ESTIMATE
COMMENTARY E: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION PROCESSES
COMMENTARY F: EQUITY CONSIDERATIONS AND ROAD