Evaluation and Value for Investment

Evaluation and Value for Investment

Social Return on Investment vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis

How different are they really? Here’s my view.

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Julian King
May 16, 2023
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Social Return on Investment (SROI) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) - what’s the difference? Both offer valuable principles and practices. However, if SROI and CBA were used by different people to evaluate the same investment or intervention, they could lead to different conclusions.

SROI and CBA share a common goal of understanding whether something cre…

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