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The article discusses the application of costs and benefits analysis in evaluating the effectiveness of spending in the public sector of economy, assesses monetary benefits received as a result of program implementation, as well as the social discount rate, and analyzes factors and methods of evaluating of costs and benefits in each particular case

Key words: analysis of costs, analysis of benefits, social rate of inter-temporal preferences, social alternative cost of capital, shadow cost of capital

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