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“Evaluating performance of public sector projects in Russia: The choice of a social discount rate”
International Journal of Project Management, 2016Tatiana Kossova, Maria Sheluntcova
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
A social time preference methodology derived from Feldstein (1965) is applied to calculate social discount rates across 167 countries and across time from 2005-2050 for a country case (Brazil). This attempt seeks to compute comparable figures from a homogeneous dataset and provides a ready-to-use framework for computing the social discount rate. Social
Joice Valentim, Mauricio Prado
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A social time preference methodology derived from Feldstein (1965) is applied to calculate social discount rates across 167 countries and across time from 2005-2050 for a country case (Brazil). This attempt seeks to compute comparable figures from a homogeneous dataset and provides a ready-to-use framework for computing the social discount rate. Social
Joice Valentim, Mauricio Prado
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A Social Discount Rate for Appraisal of Regional Investments: Evidence from Russia
International Journal of Public Administration, 2014Tatiana Kossova, Maria Sheluntcova
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Discount rate and the social cost of carbon dioxide: a Korean forecast
Applied Economics, 2019This paper is to forecast the Korean long-term social discount rate of carbon dioxide (SDRC) and the social cost of carbon dioxide (SCC). It is estimated using the Ramsey function, savings behavior, socio-economic standard, exponential function, expected
Wook Sohn
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On the Social Rate of Discount
1974Few topics in our discipline rival the social rate of discount as a subject exhibiting simultaneously a very considerable degree of knowledge and a very substantial level of ignorance. Economists understand thoroughly just what this variable should measure: the opportunity cost of postponement of receipt of any benefit yielded by a public investment ...
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The Impacts of Social Discount Rate in Countries Striving for Industrialization
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2023Ö. Turan, S. Gurluk
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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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