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Analiza kosztów i korzyści w sektorze publicznym – zarys metody
The cost benefit analysis in public sector – the outline of the method

Author(s): Monika Truszkowska-Kurstak, Renata Przygodzka
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: cost and benefit analysis; social benefits; social costs; social discount rate

Summary/Abstract: The main intention of this article is to present the cost benefit analysis method in the context of the problems connected with the implementation of this method in public sector. A special attention of the authors is focused on: a diversity of the areas, in which the cost benefit analysis method can be applied, a wide variety of costs and benefits taken into account and a problem of its evaluation from a social perspective, calculating a social discount rate, problems of uncertainty, project risk and neutralization of the effect of inflation.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 167
  • Page Range: 339-351
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish