Regulations are developed and written in areas where a careful cost and benefit analysis reveals that regulations are justified and necessary to ensure an adequate level of protection to people, property and the environment.
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Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
Where is the cost and benefit analysis in government expenditure?
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This proposal threatens to become the latest in a long line of expensive verification systems that fail a basic cost-benefit analysis and threaten to drown Americans in bureaucracy at every stage of their lives.
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Whistle-blowers undoubtedly face significant risk and must do cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to come forward.
That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
Mr. Weiss has also worked in various international fora to enhance regulatory transparency, incentivize the development of standards through open, transparent, consensus-based processes, encourage the use of good regulatory practices (including cost-benefit analysis), and facilitate greater regulatory alignment with major U.S. trading partners.
EGCs and underwriters view the benefit of additional information as outweighing the cost, as it allows more thorough discussion and analysis of trends and uncertainties, as well as more meaningful due diligence to make sure the disclosure overall is fair and accurate.
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In it, he explores the centuries-old, and still raging, philosophical arguments over the limitations of utilitarianism and its economic descendant, cost-benefit analysis.
Canada's withdrawal comes ahead of a major convention in Bonn, Germany, "to carry out the first ever comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought", the UN Environment Programme said.
Various industry lobbies and GOP Congressmen demanded that the SEC do a cost-benefit analysis on the rule.
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Having a better understanding of industry dynamics and realistic numbers would allow international policymakers to utilize better cost benefit analysis tools the next time they are faced with requests to alter the way the Internet operates.
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Then, when the agency began to draft rules, it was harassed by Wall Street, Republicans in the House and the insurance industry into justifying it through a tortuous cost-benefit analysis, which has tied it up in bureaucratic purgatory for more than two years.
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Proponents argue that such cost-benefit analysis has to figure into health-care decisions, and that any medical system rations care in some way.
Cost-benefit analysis (which puts a discount rate on the future, and measures in dollars and cents) is wicked.
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