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Preface -- Acknowledgment to contributors -- Abbreviations and definitions -- 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. National investment management -- Pt. 2. Sector analysis and management -- Pt. 3. The project cycle -- Pt. 4. Project analysis -- Pt. 5. Summary and conclusions

This book synthesizes and makes accessible in one place some of the principal lessons learned by the World Bank in thirty-five years of financing development in its member countries. It provides guidance to developing countries in selecting, preparing, and carrying out their whole portfolio of investment projects, regardless of the source of financing. Although written primarily for senior and middle-level civil servants in the finance, planning, and sector ministries and agencies in developing countries, as well as for project managers in the public and private sectors, the book should also be useful to development practitioners in aid agencies, universities, research organizations, consulting firms, and elsewhere. It is designed to be fully intelligible to economists with the emphasis not on how to do investment and project analysis, but on how to understand and use it.