Socio-Economic Investment and Policy Appraisal
Course Tags:
#NoPoverty#ZeroHunger#GoodHealthAndWellbeing#QualityEducation#GenderEquality#CleanWaterAndSanitation#AffordableAndCleanEnergy#DecentWorkAndEconomicGrowth#IndustryInnovationAndInfrastructure#ReducedInequality#SustainableCitiesAndCommunities#ResponsibleConsumptionAndProduction#ClimateAction#LifeBelowWater#LifeOnLand#PeaceAndJusticeStrongInstitutions#PartnershipsToAchieveSDGs
Institution: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Professor: Paraskevi Boufounou
Associate Professor: Paraskevi Boufounou
Level: Undergraduate
Course Outline
The course aims to present and familiarize students with the method of Cost Benefit Analysis, to assess the (positive and negative) impacts of development projects and policy measures into social welfare. The course is structured in 3 sections that be implemented in 13-week lectures.
- In the first section, the criteria of investment decisions are presented together with the development project cycle and the interconnection of development projects to public investment and development policy. In particular, the following is introduced:
- the basic concepts of investment appraisal from a private economic point of view, ie the concepts of investment, payoff, Present Net Value, investment criteria and financial analysis of an investment, and
- the concepts of the project, the policy measure and the regulatory intervention of the state. Also the framework of the economic evaluation of a state intervention is presented.