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Introduction: Pte. 1. Theoretical Issues: 1. Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices / J. Drèze and N. Stern -- 2. Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange shadow wages / A. K. Sen -- 3. The rate of discount for cost benefit analysis and the theory of the second best / J. E. Stiglitz -- 4. Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions / K. J. Arrow and R. C. Lind -- 5. Allowing for income distributions / R. Layard and A. A. Walters -- 6. Project appraisal and planning twenty years on / I. M. D. Little and J. A. Mirrlees -- Pte. 2. How to value things: 7. Research into the value of time / The MVA Consultancy et al. -- 8. The theory of equalising differences / S. Rosen -- 9. The economics of safety and physical risk / M. W. Jones-Lee -- 10. The environment and emerging development issues / P. Dasgupta and K. Maler -- 11. Resource depletion, research and development, and the social rate of discount / P. Dasgupta -- Pte. 3. Case Studies: 12. Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation system / S. A. Morrison and C. Winston -- 13. Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads / D. Newbery -- 14. The allocation of urban transport subsidy / S. Glaister -- 15. QUALYs and equity-efficiency tradeoff / A. Wagstaff -- 16. Water vending activities in developing countries / D. Whittington, D. T. Lauria, D. A. Okun, and X. Mu -- 17. Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry / D. W. Pearce.