Skip to main content

Concept information

activities > analysis > cost benefit analysis

PREFERRED TERM

Created: 1981-01-09T00:00:00Z

skos:notation: 1919

cost benefit analysis  

DEFINITION

  • A process for calculating and comparing the benefits and costs of a given policy or project, based on assigning a monetary value to all the associated activities. It is used to evaluate the feasibility or profitability of projects and public policy interventions. It aggregates the costs and benefits in different periods to a single value using a discount rate, assigning lower weight to the costs and benefits as they happen further into the future.

    Created: 11/7/23

    (en)

BROADER CONCEPT

HAS COMPONENT

IN OTHER LANGUAGES

URI

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1919

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 11/20/11, last modified 11/29/23