TY - BOOK AU - Brent, Robert J. ed. TI - Handbook of research on cost-benefit analysis SN - 9781847200693 U1 - 338.5 PY - 2009/// CY - UK PB - Edward Elagr KW - Cost effectiveness - Research. KW - Cost-effectiveness - Research. KW - Cost-benefit analysis N1 - Overview of the field and the contributions in the handbook / Robert J. Brent -- Cost-benefit analysis for health / Peter Zweifel and Harry Telser -- Cost-benefit analysis of drug abuse treatment / William S. Cartwright -- Can cost-benefit analysis guide education policy in developing countries? / Emmanuel Jimenez and Harry Anthony Patrinos -- Cost-benefit analysis in transport : recent developments in rail project apprasal in Britain / Chris Nash and James Laird -- Cost-benefit analysis of environmental projects and the role of distributional weights / Robert J. Brent and Booi Themeli -- Cost-benefit analysis applied to labour market programmes / Michele Campolieti and Morley Gunderson -- Regulation and cost-benefit analsyis / Franco Papandrea -- Can cost-benefit analysis of financial regulation be made credible? / Patrick Honohan -- The welfare effects of inflation : a cost-benefit perspective / Karl-Heinz Tödter and Bernhard Manzke -- Cost-benefit analysis of economic globalization / Clem Tisdell -- Poverty alleviation programs and their impacts : a survey / Jyotsna Jalan -- Too hungry to read : is an education subsidy a misguided policy for development? / Parantap Basu -- Project finance and cost-benefit analysis / Peggy B. Musgrave -- Cost-benefit analysis and the evaluation of the effects of corruption on public projects / Robert J. Brent -- Social security and future generations / Hans Fehr and Øystein Thøgersen -- Irreversible investments : a cost-benefit perspective / Rati Ram and Rajeev K. Goel -- Pro-growth, pro-poor : is there a trade-off? / J. Humberto Lopez -- The value of the 1964 Surgeon General's report / Frank Chaloupka and Richard M. Peck ER -