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<font color="#FF0000"><b>MIT 11.484: Project Appraisal in
Developing Countries<br>
</b></font>Course website:
stellar.mit.edu/S/course/11/sp05/11.484
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<b>Course Description and Objectives:<br>
</b>This is a practical course that teaches techniques of project
appraisal with special consideration for the developing world
context. It also provides a critical analysis of these tools and
their role in the political economy of international development.
The goal is to make students adept at using and managing project
evaluation.<br>
Students will first learn the financial analysis of investment
expenditures and then proceed to the economic and distributive appraisal
of such projects. Students will also consider:<br><br>
* Alternative planning strategies for conditions of uncertainty in
the absence of science-based knowledge.<br>
* Project cycle management; preconditions and assumptions, and its
iterative structure.<br>
* Organizational factors involved in developing new policies,
choosing among alternatives, gaining acceptance, assuring implementation,
and coping with unanticipated consequences. <br>
* Political environment and the interactions of clients and
advisers, engineers, planners, policy analysts, and other professionals.
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Pre-Requisites: Students should have introductory level of
micro-economics.<br><br>
Professor Annette M. Kim<br>
Class meets Tuesdays and
Thursdays
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11 - 12:30
PM
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Room 10-401<br><br>
First class meets February 1, 2005 <br><br>
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<font color="#800000"><b>Annette M. Kim, Ph.D.<br>
</b>Assistant Professor<br>
Department of Urban Studies and Planning<br>
M.I.T.<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 10-404<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
tel: 617-324-6135<br>
fax: 617-258-0382<br>
annette@mit.edu</font> </body>
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