Central Bank of Nigeria Library

Water-resource development:

Eckstein, Otto.

Water-resource development: the economics of project evaluation / - Cambridge, Harvard University Press, c1958. - xiii, 300 p. :ill - Harvard economic studies, .

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references: p. 283-290.

This book examines the federal water resource program in U.S. It analyzes the procedures for measuring benefits and costs employed by the two major agencies which are building federal water resource projects- the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior and the Corps of Engineers, U.S Army. The analysis is based on the theory of welfare economics, it treats benefit cost analysis as a means of testing the quality of a project.


Water resources development


United States

HD1694.A5 / E25 1958

333.91 / ECK