What are the concerns that arise in selecting a discount rate while conducting a cost-benefit analysis?
What will be an ideal response?
First, there is an element of uncertainty when determining benefits that will occur in the future. Second, there is concern over the social rate of discount that some argue is justified based on the need for greater public investment for future infrastructure. Last is the concern that arises concerning intergenerational equity and what is owed to (or by) future posterity.
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A) House minority leader B) the Speaker C) president pro tem D) the whip E) the vice president
A researcher has decided to do a study of people who hunt in a nearby national forest. He asks a friend, whom he knows to be a hunter, if he would consent to an interview. He interviews his friend and then asks his friend if he could name other people who hunted in the forest. His friend provides him with five names. The researcher contacts those five people, interviews them, and asks each of those people for names of other hunters. This sampling technique is known as ______.
A. casual sampling B. personal sampling C. key informant interviewing D. snowball sampling
About onesixth of India's population lives in conditions in which their incomes fall more than 25 percent below the level needed to obtain basic food, clothing, or shelter, a condition known as
a. under-nourishment. b. underemployment. c. ultrapoverty. d. extreme debt. e. fatal poverty.
A power created for the president through laws passed by Congress is called a(n) ________ power
A) constitutional B) inherent C) legislative D) limited E) statutory