Using cost-benefit analysis in developed and developing countries : is it the same?

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Quah, Euston
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Working Paper
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Monetary Authority of Singapore 2022
• الموضوعات: Social sciences::Economic development
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://www.mas.gov.sg/publications/economic-essays/2017/using-cost-benefit-analysis-in-developed-and-developing-countries-is-it-the-same; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152298
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Nobel laureate and economist Simon Kuznets put forth the concept of gross domestic product (GDP) in response to a need for good data in public policy planning in the 1930s. Since then, policymakers have increasingly relied upon GDP and other national income indicators. If only one macro indica...