Institutions for the Evaluation of Public Investment Expenditures in Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland

Four different jurisdictions have been considered in this paper. The aim was to study the level of the quality of capital-expenditure management and to compare the relative importance of the features that one finds in such systems. At the end of this study there is a comparison of the five case studies discussed in this paper and the companion paper on Chile (Development Discussion Paper, 2014-03), which we attempt to rank the strength or importance of six important factors.