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• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I Theoretical Issues
• 1. Shadow prices and markets: Policy reform, shadow prices and market prices
• 2. Shadow prices and markets: Feasibility constraints: foreign exchange and shadow wages
• 3. Discount rates: The rate of discount for benefit-cost analysis and the theory of the second best
• 4. Risk and uncertainty: Uncertainty and the evaluation of public investment decisions
• 5. Income distribution: Allowing for income distribution
• 6. The costs and benefits of analysis: Project appraisal and planning twenty years on
• Part II How To Value Things
• 7. Time savings: Research into the value of time The MVA Consutancy et al.
• 8. Safety and the saving of life: The theory of equalizing differences
• 9. Safety and the saving of life: The economics of safety and physical risk
• 10. The environment: The environment and emerging development issues
• 11. Exhaustible resources: Resource depletion, research and development and the social rate of disco
• Part III Case Studies
• 12. Regulation and deregulation: Enhancing the performance of the deregulated air transportation sys
• 13. Pricing: Pricing and congestion: economic principles relevant to pricing roads
• 14. Public transport: The allocation of urban public transport subsidy
• 15. Health care: QALYs and the equity-efficiency tradeoff
• 16. Infrastructure: Water vending activities in developing countries
• 17. The environment: Assessing the social rate of return from investment in temperate zone forestry
• Index