Overstated programme advantages
- Overestimated economic benefits of projects
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In large-scale water projects cost-benefit ratios are often manipulated to give a favourable economic assessment of the projects. Sponsoring agencies overestimate expected annual monetary gains, the benefits of irrigation, outdoor recreation, flood control, job creation potential and the life of dams.
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World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
Economics » Economic
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English
Last update
Dec 3, 2024