这是一篇来自加拿大的金融作业代写，主要目的是熟悉由世界银行或加拿大政府（GOC）准备的成本效益分析，并利用你在课堂上学到的知识来回顾该分析，并就如何改进该分析提出建议。

Task 1 – Project Selection (10% of total grade)

By browsing the address discussed below, identify two options for the project or policy you would like to focus on for this assignment using the instructions below. See the full instructions for handing in your choices below. The faculty will review the selected projects to ensure each student has selected a unique project. Priority will be given to those who submit their choices first. In the event that both your first and second choices have already been selected, the faculty will contact you directly to select a new project. (Note: It may be a good idea to NOT select the first project that shows up in search, as a lot of students pick them, resulting in those students being told to pick up another option.)

Priority will be given to those who submit their choices first. In the event that both your first and second choices have already been selected, the faculty will contact you directly to select a new project.

The project you select must have an economic analysis included in the project/policy document you are basing your analysis on. Purely qualitative analyses or studies that do not have any cost-benefit analysis will not be approved.

You can find World Bank projects using the following steps:

1. Browse to https://projects.worldbank.org/
2. Search for one of the following terms based on your interest:
   • Transportation
   • Electricity
   • Water and sanitation
   • Health
   • Nutrition

    

3. Click on the project that you find interesting
4. Make sure that the project has a project appraisal document (PAD) in English. To do so,navigate to the “documents” tab in the project page

5. Download and review the PAD document’s introductory material and the “Project Appraisal Summary” section.

6. Repeat these steps until you have found a project that comes with a PAD and is interesting to you.

7. Enter the details about the project in the Google form.

You can find Government of Canada projects using the following steps:

1. Browse to Canada Gazette

2. Go to “advanced search”
3. Search for the exact phrase (first text box) “impact analysis”
4. In the results, look for a policy that interests you. Once you’ve selected a policy, review the “regulatory impact analysis statement” briefly to gauge our interest in the policy

5. Repeat the steps above until you find one that is of interest to you.
6. Enter the details about the project in the Google form.

Task 2 – CBA Review (90% of total grade)

Once the choice in task 1 is approved, you can proceed with conducting a review of the project appraisal or regulatory impact analysis. Your analysis should be no longer than 2,000 words including citations and references and should be submitted to OnQ by 11:59pm EST on December 15, 2022.

(Note, this needs to be your own analysis, and NOT a copy of paragraphs of text without your own thoughts/analysis/interpretation).

This review must come with the following parts:

Part 1: Identify and briefly describe the sources of costs and benefits (40% of total grade)

What are the main sources of economic benefits and costs listed in the project/policy document? How are the benefits estimated? You need to provide a high-level description of the required inputs and their relationship to the benefit or cost. For each benefit and cost (impact) include the name and brief paragraph about the methodology and assumptions. For a transport project, for instance, the benefits for the traffic might be estimated as the difference in traveling cost with and without the project, using values for speed, volume, time-value, and vehicle operating costs.

Part 2: Stakeholders affected by the project (20% of total grade)

Who are the stakeholders affected by each of the costs or benefits listed under the previous question? Are the benefits equally distributed among the subgroups of society? Are there unequal impacts on different subgroups based on gender, age, income, or location?

Part 3: How can this analysis be improved? (30% of total grade)

Can you suggest ways in which the analysis conducted by the economist can be improved or presented better? You should consult the course material, the World Bank’s guidance document on economic analysis (see pages 11 to 15 on this document) or the Government of Canada’s Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide for reference on what could be considered.

Important Hints/Notes

1. Be sure to check for a CBA annex in your selected project. For World Bank projects, there is usually a section on technical, economic, and financial analysis (though this is sometimes called something else). For some of these projects, there is also an economic annex included in this PAD, which goes into a detailed description about how the costs and benefits are valued. For Government of Canada projects, be sure to check for a “Benefits and costs” section or a “Cost-benefit statement” (note the title of this content varies a lot across GOC projects!). Please take a look for these types of sections when you’re doing your analysis of the project.

2. In response to the first question in the assignment, you should focus on what is quantified in the CBA for the project that you’re working on. Other impacts that you think should be quantified but would be relevant to the third question in the handout.

3. For citations please use MLA format. But please keep in mind that this assignment should be largely based on your analysis of the project you’ve selected, and should not need that many references.