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Crawford School of Public Policy

Primer on cost benefit analysis

Associate Professor Leo Dobes discusses his short courses on cost-benefit analysis.

For more information about the 'Primer on cost-benefit analysis' course, please visit: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/executive...

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" You're probably wondering why a busy public servant does a cost-benefit analysis course? Well, there are very good reasons, actually. And you may not have thought about them. The really important one is that you don't mislead ministers and it's very easy even with the best of intentions to mislead a minister if you don't understand what a consultant has given you. You may not even know what they're talking about, you just see a figure at the end and you've got to be able to explain it and it's too difficult.." 

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