Events
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Welcome
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Foresight and long-term public governance part 1
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Foresight and long-term public governance part 2
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Lunch
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Welcome and Introduction
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CBA for sustainable governance
Rydges Hotel – Space 1 & 2 75 Featherson Street, Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandSome public decisions have consequences that last for decades, shaping future infrastructure, environmental outcomes, fiscal pressures and the choices available to future generations. This talk explores how cost-benefit analysis can support sustainable governance in those long-term decisions. Rather than focusing on how to conduct a CBA, it asks what role CBA should play when governments […]
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The Illusion of Certainty
Rydges Hotel – Space 1 & 2 75 Featherson Street, Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandCost-benefit analysis can reduce complex public choices to a single number, ratio or preferred option. That discipline is useful, but it can make decisions seem more certain than they are. This talk looks beneath the result, asking how much confidence decision-makers should place in it and how assumptions about the problem, counterfactual, forecasts, distribution, discounting […]
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Welcome
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Delivering for the future whilst dealing with the challenges of today
Rydges Hotel – Space 1 & 2 75 Featherson Street, Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand