Explain why cost-benefit analysis is able to provide an answer as to whether a project is desirable or not, whereas other methods tend to produce more ambiguous results.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Cost-benefit analysis reduces all the costs and benefits of public programs to a single economic dimension, whereas other forms of analysis may produce confusion because of the lack of a common standard of comparison.

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