Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based...

This book applies cost-benefit analysis techniques in the management of environment and natural resources in developing countries of the Southeast Asian region and presents a compendium of studies conducted by researchers supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia...

This paper contains an ex ante cost-benefit analysis of a new World Bank project aimed at improving the quality and relevance of undergraduate education in Sri Lanka (the IRQUE project). The paper outlines a range of potential economic and social benefits that can accrue through this IRQUE...

This paper deals with the costs and benefits of using foreign capital in the following Asian countries: Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Related policy issues are discussed as well.