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This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current research in the field of cost-benefit analysis and is designed as a starting point for those interested in undertaking advanced research. The Handbook contains major contributions to the development of the field, focussing on standard microeconomic policy evaluations, the relatively neglected area of macroeconomic policy and its integration into a formal CBA framework, and dynamic considerations in CBAPresenting insights from many influential thinkers, and edited by a leading academic in the field, this comprehensive work will prove an invaluable reference tool for economists, researchers and scholars.
Robert J. Brent, Professor of Economics, Fordham University, New York, US
Contents:PrefacePART I: INTRODUCTION1. Overview of the Field and the Contributions in the HandbookRobert J. BrentPART II: MICROECONOMIC EVALUATIONS2. Cost–Benefit Analysis for HealthPeter Zweifel and Harry Telser3. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Drug Abuse TreatmentWilliam S. Cartwright4. Can Cost–Benefit Analysis Guide Education Policy in Developing Countries?Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Anthony Patrinos5. Cost–Benefit Analysis in Transport: Recent Developments in Rail Project Appraisal in BritainChris Nash and James Laird6. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Environmental Projects and the Role of Distributional WeightsRobert J. Brent and Booi Themeli7. Cost–Benefit Analysis Applied to Labour Market ProgrammesMichele Campolieti and Morley Gunderson 8. Regulation and Cost–Benefit AnalysisFranco Papandrea9. Can Cost–Benefit Analysis of Financial Regulation be Made Credible?Patrick HonohanPART III: MACROECONOMIC EVALUATIONS 10. The Welfare Effects of Inflation: A Cost–Benefit PerspectiveKarl-Heinz Tödter and Bernhard Manzke11. Cost–Benefit Analysis of Economic GlobalizationClem Tisdell12. Poverty Alleviation Programs and their Impacts: A SurveyJyotsna Jalan13. Too Hungry to Read: Is an Education Subsidy a Misguided Policy for Development?Parantap Basu14. Project Finance and Cost–Benefit AnalysisPeggy B. Musgrave15. Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Evaluation of the Effects of Corruption on Public ProjectsRobert J. Brent PART IV: DYNAMIC EVALUATIONS16. Social Security and Future GenerationsHans Fehr and Øystein Thøgersen 17. Irreversible Investments: A Cost–Benefit PerspectiveRati Ram and Rajeev K. Goel18. Pro-Growth, Pro-Poor: Is There a Trade-off?J. Humberto Lopez19. The Value of the 1964 Surgeon General’s ReportFrank Chaloupka and Richard M. PeckIndex
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