Social discount rate (SDR) is a measure used to help guide choices about the value of diverting funds to social projects. It is defined as "the appropriate value of r to use in computing present discount value for social investments." Determining this rate is not always easy and can be the subject of discrepancies in the true net benefit to certain projects, plans and policies.
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