Principles of cost-benefit analysis for developing countries
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Principles of cost-benefit analysis for developing countries
Cambridge University Press, 1996
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 268-277
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this distinctive 1996 book the authors combine an introduction to welfare economics, a discussion of project appraisal principles in developing countries and a survey of the cost-benefit problems raised by externalities, risk and the environment. There are references throughout to contemporary research work in developing economics, and a number of important development policy issues, such as trade reform, commodity price stabilization and the rate of exploitation of natural resources, are considered within a unified cost-benefit framework. A particular feature is the use at an elementary level of general equilibrium models which extend the analysis beyond the limits of the well known partial measures of producer and consumer surplus. The book is primarily intended for courses in development economics, but will also be of interest to students of public policy, both in teaching and administration.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction to Welfare Economics: 1. Measuring changes in economic welfare: consumer and producer surplus
- 2. Consumers and producers: some basic theory
- 3. Welfare change in general equilibrium
- 4. Equity and efficiency
- Part II. Project and Policy Appraisal in Developing Countries: 5. Project appraisal: an overview
- 6. Shadow prices for traded and non-traded commodities in an open economy
- 7. Trade policy, exchange rates and structural adjustment
- 8. Labour markets in developing countries
- 9. The social value of labour
- 10. Intertemporal costs and benefits (1): a market-based approach
- 11. Intertemporal costs and benefits (2): a social planning approach
- Part III. Missing Markets: 12. Externalities and public goods
- 13. Risk and the measurement of welfare change
- 14. Natural resources and the environment
- Retrospect.
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