This book highlights the key concepts and principles of cost-benefit analysis as applied in the real world. As well as large scale construction and transport projects, the impact of cost-benefit analysis on a range of social programmes, health, education and the environment is also examined.
This book highlights the key concepts and principles of cost-benefit analysis as applied in the real world. As well as large scale construction and transport projects, the impact of cost-benefit analysis on a range of social programmes, health, education and the environment is also examined.
Euston Quah is Head of Economics at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is co-author, with E. J. Mishan, of the fifth edition of Cost-Benefit Analysis, also published by Routledge. Raymond Toh is an Executive in the Corporate Development Division at the Singapore Land Transport Authority.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. History and Scope of CBA 3. Valuation Issues and Methods 4. Benefit Transfers 5. Simple Mathematics of Discounting and Decision Criteria 6. Value of a Statistical Life 7. Estimating the Economic Cost of Air Pollution on Health 8. Economic Cost of Diseases 9. Pair-Wise Comparison: A Novel Approach 10. Behavioral Effects and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Lessons from Behavioral Economics 11. The Three Gorges Dam Project 12. Flue Gas De-Sulphurisation in Mae Moh 13. Hosting International Events - Cases from Beijing Olympics 2008 and Inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore 2010 14. Human Capital Investment Programs in Singapore 15. Qinghai-Tibet Railway - Investment to Improve Travel Time, Promote Tourism and Economic Growth 16. Proliferation of Nuclear Power Plants in Asia - Examples from Malaysia and Singapore 17. Preservation of Amazon Forest 18. Wastewater Management Project in Sri Lanka 19. Nairobi-Thika Highway in Kenya 20. 1997 Southeast Asian Haze 21. H4N1 Avian Flu Immunization Program 22. Fangcheng Port Project, Guangxi China 23. Jamuna Bridge Project in Bangladesh 24. Speed Limit Regulation for Highways in Japan
1. Introduction 2. History and Scope of CBA 3. Valuation Issues and Methods 4. Benefit Transfers 5. Simple Mathematics of Discounting and Decision Criteria 6. Value of a Statistical Life 7. Estimating the Economic Cost of Air Pollution on Health 8. Economic Cost of Diseases 9. Pair-Wise Comparison: A Novel Approach 10. Behavioral Effects and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Lessons from Behavioral Economics 11. The Three Gorges Dam Project 12. Flue Gas De-Sulphurisation in Mae Moh 13. Hosting International Events - Cases from Beijing Olympics 2008 and Inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore 2010 14. Human Capital Investment Programs in Singapore 15. Qinghai-Tibet Railway - Investment to Improve Travel Time, Promote Tourism and Economic Growth 16. Proliferation of Nuclear Power Plants in Asia - Examples from Malaysia and Singapore 17. Preservation of Amazon Forest 18. Wastewater Management Project in Sri Lanka 19. Nairobi-Thika Highway in Kenya 20. 1997 Southeast Asian Haze 21. H4N1 Avian Flu Immunization Program 22. Fangcheng Port Project, Guangxi China 23. Jamuna Bridge Project in Bangladesh 24. Speed Limit Regulation for Highways in Japan
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