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Behavioural Policy Appraisal

Learn how to explain the theory of cost benefit analysis (CBA)
Understand a range of techniques to measure policy impact and understand ways in which to measure value

Overview

Off the shelf (OTS)

CBA lies at the heart of policy appraisal in Government and increasingly for the private and voluntary sector too. For CBA to be useful in informing resource allocation decisions, we need to accurately measure all the causal impacts of the policy and to attach a monetary value to them.