Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Background and theory of cost-benefit analysis -- Introduction -- History and scope of cost-benefit analysis -- Part II. Topics and issues frequently discussed in cost-benefit analysis -- Valuation issues and methods -- Benefit transfers -- Simple mathematics of discounting and decision criteria -- Value of a statistical life in Singapore -- Estimating the economic cost of air pollution in health -- Economic cost of diseases -- Part III. New applications in cost-benefit analysis -- Pair-wise comparison: a novel approach -- Behavioural effects and cost-benefit analysis: lessons from behavioural economics -- Part IV. Case studies of cost-benefit analysis -- The three Gorges Dam project, China -- Flue gas desulphurization in Mae Moh, Thailand -- Hosting international events: cases from the Beijing Olympics 2008 and the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore 2010 -- Human capital investmanr programmes in Singapore -- Qinghai - Tibet railway: investment to improve travel time, promote tourism and economic growth -- Proliferation of nuclear power plants in Asia: examples from Malaysia and Singapore -- Preservation of the Amazon rainforest -- Wastewater management project in Sri Lanka -- Nairobi - Thika highway in Kenya -- Southeast Asian haze of 1997 -- H5N1 avain influenza immunization programme -- Fangcheng Port project, Guangxi, China -- Jamuna Bridge project in Bangladesh -- Construction of Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand -- Speed limit for highways in Japan.