Underestimation of programme costs

Name(s): 
Underestimated project disadvantages
Incidence 
In large-scale water projects cost-benefit ratios are often manipulated to give a favourable economic assessment of the projects. Sponsoring agencies underestimate expected costs for annual operation and maintenance of the projects, reservoir-flooding of productive land, loss of outdoor recreation sites, environmental costs of irrigation. Besides, they ignore the costs of decommissioning, fail to account for the energy costs of building, for example a dam, and use unrealistically low discount rates of future value of the currency.
Broader 
Undeveloped business plan
Inadequate budgeting practices
Falsification of programme evaluations
Narrower 
Drawbacks to cable television
Aggravates 
Lack of hiring money
Insufficient programme funding [in 4 loops]
Cost overruns in large-scale public programmes
Disproportionate administrative overhead costs in programmes [in 1 loop]
Aggravated by 
Inaccurate forecasting
Uninformed cost speculation
National economic dislocation
Short range planning for long-term development
Strategy(ies) 
Estimating programme costs
Underestimating project disadvantages
Estimating accurately project disadvantages
Value(s) 
Disadvantage
Underestimation
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems