Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems

Costs and Benefits

By: BjÃ¸rn Lomborg (Editor)

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Hardcover | 18 October 2007

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The world has many pressing problems. Thanks to the efforts of governments, NGOs, and individual activists there is no shortage of ideas for resolving them. However, even if all governments were willing to spend more money on solving the problems, we cannot do it all at once. We have to prioritize; and in order to do this we need a better sense of the costs and benefits of each 'solution'. This book offers a rigorous overview of twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide a short survey of the state-of-the-art analysis and sketch out policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios. A unique feature is the provision of freely downloadable software which allows readers to make their own cost-benefit calculations for spending money to make the world a better place.

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List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
Economy
Financial instability
Lack of intellectual property rights
Money laundering
Subsidies and trade barriers
Environment
Air pollution
Climate change
Deforestation
Land degradation
Loss of biodiversity
Vulnerability to natural disasters
Governance
Arms proliferation
Conflicts
Corruption
Lack of education
Terrorism
Health and Population
Drugs
Diseases
Lack of people of working age
Living conditions of children
Living conditions of women
Malnutrition/hunger
Unsafe water and lack of sanitation
Population: migration
Index
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