This book highlights the key concepts and principles of cost-benefit analysis as applied in the real world. As well as large scale construction and transport projects, the impact of cost-benefit analysis on a range of social programmes, health, education and the environment is also examined.

1. Introduction 2. History and Scope of CBA 3. Valuation Issues and Methods 4. Benefit Transfers 5. Simple Mathematics of Discounting and Decision Criteria 6. Value of a Statistical Life 7. Estimating the Economic Cost of Air Pollution on Health 8. Economic Cost of Diseases 9. Pair-Wise Comparison: A Novel Approach 10. Behavioral Effects and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Lessons from Behavioral Economics 12. The Three Gorges Dam Project 13. Flue Gas De-Sulphurisation in Mae Moh 14. Hosting International Events - Cases from Beijing Olympics 2008 and Inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore 2010 15. Human Capital Investment Programs in Singapore 16. Qinghai-Tibet Railway - Investment to Improve Travel Time, Promote Tourism and Economic Growth 17. Proliferation of Nuclear Power Plants in Asia - Examples from Malaysia and Singapore 18. Preservation of Amazon Forest 19. Wastewater Management Project in Sri Lanka 20. Nairobi-Thika Highway in Kenya 21. 1997 Southeast Asian Haze 22. H4N1 Avian Flu Immunization Program 23. Fangcheng Port Project, Guangxi China 24. Jamuna Bridge Project in Bangladesh 25. Speed Limit Regulation for Highways in Japan