Cost - benefit analysis and the perpetuation of regional imbalance -- a note

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Regional development benefits are excluded from cost - benefit analysis, but the valuation techniques and discounting techniques create a bias towards projects in the best-developed regions. Three devices to counter this tendency are noted.

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Last time updated on 06/07/2012

This paper was published in Research Papers in Economics.

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