This article describes a multidisciplinary study of market-based policies for controlling air pollution in China. While previous studies have examined the costs and benefits of pollution control separately, this approach determines them together using an economy–environment model for China.

The burden of typhoid fever remains high in impoverished settings, and increasing antibiotic resistance
is making treatment costly. One strategy for reducing the typhoid morbidity and mortality is vaccination
with the Vi polysaccharide vaccine.We use awealth of neweconomic and epidemiological data to evaluate
the cost-effectiveness of Vi vaccination against typhoid in sites in four Asian cities: Kolkata (India), Karachi
(Pakistan), North Jakarta (Indonesia), and Hue (Vietnam). We report results from both a societal as well

The Ethiopian live animal and meat export marketing system is operating in an environment characterized by several constraints that needs the attention and action of the government and other non-governmental development organizations.

Many greenhouse gas mitigation policies that shift fossil fuel use are accompanied by some hidden environmental benefits, so called “co-benefits” or “ancillary benefits.”

Empirical evidence suggests that people’s risk-perceptions are often systematically biased. This paper develops a simple framework to analyse public policy when this is the case.

Data on the burden of disease, costs of illness, and cost-effectiveness of vaccines are needed to facilitate the
use of available anti-typhoid vaccines in developing countries. This one-year prospective surveillance was
carried out in an urban slum community in Delhi, India, to estimate the costs of illness for cases of typhoid
fever. Ninety-eight culture-positive typhoid, 31 culture-positive paratyphoid, and 94 culture-negative cases
with clinical typhoid syndrome were identified during the surveillance. Estimates of costs of illness were

Many economic analyses of immunization programmes focus on the benefits in terms of public-sector
cost savings, but do not incorporate estimates of the private cost savings that individuals receive from
vaccination. This paper considers the implications of Bahl et al.'s cost-of-illness estimates for typhoid
immunization policy by examining how community-level incidence estimates and information on distribution
of costs of illness among patients and the public-health sector can be used in the economic

Many argue that it is socially inefficient to use distributional weights in cost-benefit analysis, and that doing so implies large inefficiency losses, when distributional matters can be dealt with through income taxation, instead.

This paper examines whether the benefits of the Melamchi water supply
project in Nepal are likely to exceed its costs, assuming that high-quality municipal
water services can be delivered to households and firms in the urbanized part of
the Kathmandu Valley. Monte Carlo simulations are used to explore the sensitivity
of the net present value and economic internal rate of return calculations to a wide
range of assumptions and input parameters.We find that extreme assumptions are

This paper undertakes a social cost-benefit analysis regarding an increase in the number of electric vehicles in the Swedish transport sector by year 2010.