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This case is concerned with the Swedish support (given through SIDA) to the rehabilitation of the gold mining industry in Nicaragua. This project is a good example of a case where the objectives are economic in nature and it therefore well illustrates the problems of applying economic analysis to international development projects. The purpose of the case study is to see how project performance was analysed and determined. Was the chosen mode of economic analysis optimal given the objectives of the project? Did it enable the concerned parties to assess project performance correctly? The case study also discusses the evaluation system of the project and its ability to pinpoint critical factors affecting project performance.
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E. Gran and K. Stenberg, Norwegian Import Support to Tanzania: Evaluation of applicants. Trondheim: SINTEF Rapport, 1988.
K. Goppers, Foreign Exchange Balances of Gold Production in Nicaragua, Stockholm: SIDA, Utredningsbyrân, 1985.
S. de Vylder, ‘Kommentar till gruvstödet’, mimeo, SIDA Industry Division, 7 April 1989, p. 9.
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© 1994 Jerker Carlsson, Gunnar Köhlin and Anders Ekbom
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Carlsson, J., Köhlin, G., Ekbom, A. (1994). The Gold Mines of Nicaragua. In: The Political Economy of Evaluation. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23206-2_4
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