Issues in benefit-cost analysis of agricultural research projects

Benefit-cost analysis of non-marginal climate and energy projects

Conventional benefit-cost analysis incorporates the normally reasonable assumption that the policy or project under examination is marginal. Among the assumptions this entails is that the policy or project is small, so the underlying growth rate of the economy does not change. However, this assumption may be inappropriate in some important circumstances, including in climate-change and energy p...

Precautionary principle and the cost benefit analysis of innovative projects

Public authorities often invoke the precautionary principle to ban or postpone the development of innovative projects with uncertain but potentially harmful irreversible impacts on the environment or health. As stated in the Rio declaration, the precautionary principle suggests balancing costs and benefits associated with irreversible decisions while taking account of the perspective to acquire...

Importance of Incorporating Distributional Issues in Benefit Cost Analysis

comparative analysis of the use of hedges & emphatics in english and persian academic research articles of sociology & psychology

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A long-term cost-benefit analysis of national anti-desertification plans in Iran

     Desertification was recognized in Iran several decades ago. This phenomenon has gradually affected half the provinces in the country, where droughts exacerbate problems in these drylands. In response, the government has been active in providing considerable funds and human resources to halt desertification through investing in national research and executive projects over the last fifty ye...