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Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1992
Abstract: Recently the discount rate recommended by Treasury Board Canada for use in program evaluations and project assessments has been challenged. This article reviews the theory and evidence supporting various estimates of the Canadian discount rate, and includes a comparison of rates used by the U.S. government and the World Bank.
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Abstract: Recently the discount rate recommended by Treasury Board Canada for use in program evaluations and project assessments has been challenged. This article reviews the theory and evidence supporting various estimates of the Canadian discount rate, and includes a comparison of rates used by the U.S. government and the World Bank.
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Intergenerational justice and the social discount rate
Theory and Decision, 1974This paper applies the Harsanyi social welfare function to the problem of determining the social discount rate. It thus views the social discount question as one of justice between generations under conditions of individual uncertainty over position, rather than as one generation's paternalism or altruism for the next generation.
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A social discount rate for Italy
Applied Economics Letters, 2007Because of the budgetary constraints imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact, the need for cost and benefit evaluation of public investment has become increasingly relevant. In a cost-benefit analysis framework, the definition of the social discount rate is key to the selection of projects and programmes on the basis of their socio-economic return. To
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A social discount rate for France
Applied Economics Letters, 2004Each of the member countries of the European Union should, ideally, employ the same approach to measuring a discount rate for application in the appraisal of social projects. This, however, is far from the case! The German rate is based on financial market data, the British measure reflects social time preference and the French rate is usually based on
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On a social discount rate for forestry
Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 1985After a review of the literature on the discount rate in economics and forestry, a methodology is proposed to arrive at an appropriate social discount rate to appraise public forestry investments. In the proposed approach, the opportunity cost of capital is considered in the establishment of a shadow price of investment.
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More on the Social Rate of Discount
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1970I. Introduction, 430. — II. Internal rates of return and the ranking of projects, 434. — III. Calculating the opportunity cost of capital, 440. — IV. Conclusions, 449.
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1971
Whether the NPV, IRR or TV approach is adopted, a rate of discount (or rate of compound in the TV case) is required. There is a presumption that all benefits and costs, regardless of their nature, are to be discounted at the same rate, and that this rate is constant over time.
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Whether the NPV, IRR or TV approach is adopted, a rate of discount (or rate of compound in the TV case) is required. There is a presumption that all benefits and costs, regardless of their nature, are to be discounted at the same rate, and that this rate is constant over time.
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Discounting and the Social Discount Rate
1998Anthony Edward Boardman +1 more
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