作者
William M Fonta, H Eme Ichoku, Kanayo K Ogujiuba, Jude O Chukwu
发表日期
2008/3/1
期刊
Journal of African economies
卷号
17
期号
2
页码范围
277-304
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
For most public projects, especially environmental projects that are partly funded by multilateral donor agencies, cost–benefit analysis has become a routine procedure for the approval of project funds. These agencies are very keen to know whether the target community or country possesses the aggregate willingness to pay for the project. The two most commonly applied techniques for such analysis are stated preference and behavioural techniques. In this study, we employ the contingent valuation method (CVM), the most widely applicable of the stated preference methods, to establish empirical grounds for pricing the services of a new solid waste management (SWM) improvement facility in Enugu State, Nigeria, initiated by the UK Department for International Development, the State's Environmental Protection Agency, and State and Local Government Programme. We find that CVM can be fruitfully used to …
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