Cost-Benefit Analysis: Cases and Materials

ISBN-13: 9780415558808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

Euston Quah; Raymond Toh

Opis

This title 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.

Spis treści

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