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[What is a cost-benefit analysis?].

Thomas MüLLER-BOHN
- 01 Oct 2004 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 10, pp 328-330
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This article is published in Medizinische Monatsschrift für Pharmazeuten.The article was published on 2004-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 844 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Total absorption costing & Relevant cost.

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The Cost-Benefit Measure for Local Public Policies: Social Benefit Function and the Compensation Test

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Benefits of mobile reporting systems in social home care: the case of seven Swedish municipalities.

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Evaluation of the Most Socioeconomically Favourable Road Alignment A Case Study of Road 56

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results of studying mechanisms applicable to evaluating performance efficiency of the executive authorities in one of the Russian Federation regions (Samara oblast) involved in organizing delivery of social services, which includes review of normative documents containing methodological deliberation and guidelines on conducting the monitoring.
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Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity

TL;DR: Enright et al. as discussed by the authors presented the Enright-Fankhauser-Gabel-Nantel-Klein model, which is based on the work of the authors of this paper.
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