Social Cost-Benefit Analysis in Australia and New Zealand
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Social Cost-Benefit Analysis in Australia and New Zealand

The State of Current Practice and What Needs to be Done

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Social Cost-Benefit Analysis in Australia and New Zealand

The State of Current Practice and What Needs to be Done

About this book

All is not well with the evaluation of government programs and projects. Resources available to any society are limited. If governments are to increase the well-being of their citizens, they must be able to select and implement the socially most beneficial projects and policies. But many government agencies lack the expertise to carry out a cost-benefit analysis, or even to commission one. Commercial consultants, on the other hand, often have some analytical expertise, but are not immune from adopting approaches that accommodate the proclivities of their client agencies. In order to increase analytical rigour and methodological consistency, this publication urges the adoption of a 'belts and braces' set of protocols for use in project evaluation.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  4. Tables and figures
  5. Introduction
  6. Professional perspectives on harmonisation and cost‑benefit analysis in Australia and New Zealand
  7. Potential approaches to harmonisation
  8. A framework approach to harmonisation
  9. What not to do: a ‘belts and braces’ enhancement of harmonisation
  10. Conclusions and recommendations
  11. Appendices
  12. Appendix 1: Sources of information
  13. Appendix 2: Multi‑criteria analysis
  14. Appendix 3: Wider economic impacts in the transport sector
  15. Appendix 4: Social discount rates
  16. Appendix 5: Greenhouse gas emissions
  17. Appendix 6: Uncertainty, risk and sensitivity
  18. Appendix 7: Deadweight economic loss caused by raising revenue for projects and programs
  19. References

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