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New rules from the Office of Management and Budget will change how the federal government weighs costs, enabling new efforts on climate change and poverty. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington ...

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns. Earlier this year, President Biden issued an Executive ...

If a tree stands in the forest, and there’s no economist around to tabulate its benefits to humans, do those benefits still exist? Critically, the healthier our natural environment, the more — and ...

The arrival of the palm oil industry in Indonesia’s Papua region has wrought more than five times as much environmental and social damage than the benefits it has delivered, according to a new ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security ...

The French capital is abuzz as Paris prepares to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. With the opening ceremony just three months away, France is preparing to welcome the world for its sixth-ever ...

General, John Perry, has suggested that for every dollar the state government spends financing the Tasmania Devils football ...