General Guidance for Cost-Benefit Analysis
In this ‘General Guidance for Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)’, CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency provide specifics to make the analysis generally suitable for a variety of measures in all policy fields.
CBA is an important tool for the ex ante assessment of policy options. CBA is a systematic information tool for surveying and evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of policy measures for society as a whole.
This general CBA guidance gives a stepwise description of the CBA process and the criteria for its various components. This new guidance thus provides a minimum set of CBA requirements. Where necessary, it leaves various aspect open for more detailed development, in CBA handbooks for specific policy fields.
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Specifications
- Publication title
- General guidance for cost-benefit analysis
- Publication date
- 23 June 2015
- Publication type
- Publication
- Publication language
- English
- Product number
- 1512