Costab 32 helps financial analysis, project economist, and project engineers estimate project costs. It performs tasks such as: calculation of physical and price contingencies, taxes and foreign exchange; producing detailed and summary project cost tables; producing financing plans and disbursements profiles; producing procurement tables; producing a suggested loan allocation table; showing project costs by implementing agency and project area; converting financial costs to economic costs for economic analysis; storing financial and economic data in excel for further processing.
This software, developed originally by the World Bank to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of project work, is now widely used in ADB.
