General Guidance for Cost-Benefit Analysis

Publication

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.

 

Authors

Gerbert Romijn, Gusta Renes

Specifications

Publication title
General guidance for cost-benefit analysis
Publication date
23 June 2015
Publication type
Publication
Publication language
English
Product number
1512