Cost-Benefit and Multi-Goal Analysis for the Public Sector

Sauder School of Business
Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Course Description:

'' This ’how-to’ course provides an overview of cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, multi-goal analysis, and related techniques for evaluating public sector projects at the federal, provincial and local levels.

Benefits of Attending

By attending this course you will learn:
how to evaluate public sector projects
how to choose among alternative evaluation techniques
how to choose among alternative projects with multiple goals or when subject to budget constraints
how to incorporate equity into decision making
how to value project impacts
what discount rates to use
the value of creating jobs and how to value lives saved
when and how to use cost-effectiveness analysis and related techniques
Course Content

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis:
measuring social benefits, opportunity cost, shadow pricing of impacts that are difficult to value
real impacts vs. distributional transfers
discounting and the social discount rate
public sector investment criteria
valuing intangibles
benefits and costs of job creation
strengths and weaknesses of cost-benefit analysis
Multi-Goal Analysis:
defining problems
identifying program objectives, evaluation, criteria and client groups
selecting effectiveness measures
alternatives evaluation ...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:604-822-8500

School Address:

Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia
2053 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z2

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