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.
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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By law, CMS is prohibited from doing cost-effectiveness analysis, but as The Legal Pulse has previously noted, the ethic of factoring cost into coverage decisions permeates the agency to the point where its employees have conducted their own, independent research on the cost of certain drugs.
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Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis.
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The IRS has failed to perform a cost-benefit analysis, as required by executive order 12866 .
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As the critics allege, cost-benefit analysis works like a kind of universal solvent.
Cornell University researcher Maria Fitzpatrick, who studies the effects of universal preschool, said it isn't yet possible to do a full cost-benefit analysis, as the oldest state programs open to all children are just 18 years old.
Contrary to a commonly held view of crowdsourcing as a transfer of low-skill work to low cost locations, our analysis shows that more than half of all the crowdsourcing workers live in North America and Europe and workers are generally very well educated.
Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
He also criticised the government's cost benefit analysis of the benefits of fitting fire sprinklers in homes as being "out of date".
Roche has told NICE that it wouldn't provide such an analysis because the treatment is "very unlikely" to be regarded as cost effective.
Democrats pushing the health care bills argue the CBO analysis lacks the impact of cost-cutting measures under discussion for existing programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
But the audit is reportedly not going to include a cost-benefit analysis, owing to the difficulty of quantifying such aspects of EU membership as foreign affairs influence.
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But the center will face significant hurdles: While sequencing is declining in cost, understanding the origins of diseases such as cancer and devising potential treatments requires costly and complicated analysis of the sequencing.
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