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This volume provides a uniquely rich set of arguments and data for prioritizing our responses to some of the most serious problems facing the world today, such as climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, corruption, migration, malnutrition and hunger, trade barriers, and water access. Leading economists evaluate the evidence for costs and benefits of various programs to help gauge how we can achieve the most good with our money. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert analyzing the scale of the problem and describing the costs and benefits of a range of policy options to improve the situation. Shorter pieces from experts offering alternative positions are also included; all ten challenges are evaluated by a panel of economists from North America, Europe, and China who rank the most promising policy options. Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious, yet accessible, springboard for debate and discussion and will be required reading for government employees, NGOs, scholars and students of public policy and applied economics, and anyone with a serious professional or personal interest in global development issues. Bjørn Lomborg is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Aarhus and the director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute. He is also the author of the controversial bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge, 2001).
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"This very useful compilation will serve to advance thinking and stimulate debate on these and related important contemporary global concerns." A.R. Sanderson, University of Chicago, CHOICE
"A hugely sensible book about global health and environmental problems, based on the 'Copenhagen Consensus' project documented in The Economist. Its authors, eminent economists, recognise that the resources to tackle such problems are finite and need to be applied where they are most likely to be effective. Better, for instance, to spend resources on the immediate problem of AIDS in Africa than the more distant one of global warming. This book is a healthy antidote to the narrow views of single-issue pressure groups." the Economist "Best Books of the Year"
"Especially recommended reading for government employees, non-governmental organizations, students of public policy and applied economics, and any individual with a direct personal or professional interest in global development issues." BOOKWATCH
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This volume provides a uniquely rich set of arguments and data for prioritizing our responses to some of the most serious problems facing the world today, such as climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, corruption, migration, malnutrition and hunger, trade barriers, and water access. Leading economists evaluate the evidence for costs and benefits of various programs to help gauge how we can achieve the most good with our money. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert analyzing the scale of the problem and describing the costs and benefits of a range of policy options to improve the situation. Shorter pieces from experts offering alternative positions are also included; all ten challenges are evaluated by a panel of economists from North America, Europe, and China who rank the most promising policy options. Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious, yet accessible, springboard for debate and discussion and will be required reading for government employees, NGOs, scholars and students of public policy and applied economics, and anyone with a serious professional or personal interest in global development issues. Bjørn Lomborg is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Aarhus and the director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute. He is also the author of the controversial bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge, 2001).
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currency mismatch problem, exclusive breastfeeding promotion, optimal cutbacks, crony bias, high optimal cut, reducing micronutrient deficiencies, water for productive purposes, baseline warming, zero pure time preference, climate damage function, measured learning achievement, external military presence, unauthorised workers, ground water overdraft, optimal carbon tax, school fixed effects, unauthorised migration, average output loss, late enrolment, guest worker programmes, optimal warming, pure time preference rates, shortening conflicts, child enrolment, abatement cost function Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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currency mismatch problem, exclusive breastfeeding promotion, optimal cutbacks, crony bias, high optimal cut, reducing micronutrient deficiencies, water for productive purposes, baseline warming, zero pure time preference, climate damage function, measured learning achievement, external military presence, unauthorised workers, ground water overdraft, optimal carbon tax, school fixed effects, unauthorised migration, average output loss, late enrolment, guest worker programmes, optimal warming, pure time preference rates, shortening conflicts, child enrolment, abatement cost function Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, New York, American Economic Review, Copenhagen Consensus, Oxford University Press, Latin America, South Africa, Lant Pritchett, United Nations, Kyoto Protocol, Journal of Development Economics, Discussion Paper, East Asia, Cambridge University Press, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Journal of Nutrition, Sierra Leone, Expert Panel Ranking, Kym Anderson, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Philip Martin, North Africa, Sri Lanka, United States, Barry Eichengreen New!
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