Euston Quah and the Virtues of Cost-Benefit Analysis

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

May 2022 PENANG PROFILE
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Professor Euston Quah.
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OUR EDITOR WAS stuck in Singapore for a few weeks in 2021 during the pandemic, and took the chance to meet up with one of Penang’s many famous sons living in that city state. This was Professor Euston Quah, an old Penang Free School boy, today ranked by Google Scholar Profiler as among the top 10 in the world in Cost-Benefit Analysis.Euston is Albert Winsemius Chair Professor of Economics, and Director of Economic Growth Centre (EGC) at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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