Global Cost-Benefit Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities
Global Cost-Benefit Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities
Abu Dhabi, Tuesday, October 26th and Wednesday, 27th 2010
Presented by: The Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law & NYU-Abu Dhabi Institute
Focus
As developing countries advance, they face increasingly complex environmental and public health challenges. These challenges will require governments to incorporate more sophisticated tools into their policy-designing process. Governments will also need to be better informed as they take on more complicated regulatory problems. Further, as developing countries continue to face limitations on financial resources, it will be important for their officials to determine which policies maximize net benefits for their societies. Cost-benefit analysis can be an important tool to allow developing countries to reach policy decisions based on a better understanding of the ultimate effects of these policies. This will be the focus of a conversation between a select group of scholars, practitioners, and government officials with expertise in environmental, public health, and energy policy.
Themes
The increasing interest in cost-benefit analysis across the developing world motivated the Institute for Policy Integrity to sponsor, along with NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, a workshop to bring together scholars from around the globe to discuss the incorporation of cost-benefit analysis into policymaking in developing countries.
This workshop will include sessions that will touch on a number themes related to cost-benefit analysis and the developing world. These sessions will reflect on the growing reach of cost-benefit analysis; they will present relevant case studies where cost-benefit analysis has been incorporated in the Americas, Africa, Middle East, and Asia; and they will include a discussion on the conceptual and institutional issues that must be addressed when adopting cost-benefit analysis in developing countries. In addition to these sessions, the workshop will include a public event that will present some of the main issues that have been discussed during this workshop.
The papers presented at the conference, as well as response papers generated by conference participants, will be the basis of a forthcoming book to be edited by Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore.
To view the full agenda, click here. And for a list of speakers’ bios, click here.
About NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
NYU Abu Dhabi Institute is a major hub of intellectual and creative activity, advanced research, and higher education. The Institute is a center of the scholarly community for Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, and the Persian Gulf, bringing together faculty and students from institutions of higher learning throughout the region. The Institute sponsors and coordinates major academic conferences, lecture and film series, research workshops, exhibitions, theatrical and music performances, and professional and continuing education courses principally in Abu Dhabi.