Global Crises, Global Solutions: Costs and BenefitsBjørn Lomborg The first edition of Global Crises, Global Solutions was nominated as one of the books of the year by The Economist in 2004. This second edition asks: if we had more money to spend to help the world's poorest people, where could we spend it most effectively? Using a common framework of cost-benefit analysis a team of leading economists, including five Nobel prize winners, assess the attractiveness of a wide range of policy options for combating ten of the world's biggest problems: Air pollution, Conflicts, Diseases, Education, Global Warming, Malnutrition and Hunger, Sanitation and Clean Water, Subsidies and Trade Barriers, Terrorism, Women and Development. The arguments are clearly presented and fully referenced so that readers are encouraged to make their own evaluation of the menu of policy options on offer. Whether you agree or disagree with the economists' conclusions, there is a wealth of data and ideas to discuss and debate. |
Contents
Air pollution | 7 |
Annual deaths from household | 9 |
Stove efficiency and capital costs | 23 |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 50 |
levels in selected cities | 51 |
The security challenge in conflictprone | 58 |
Armed conflicts by intensity | 61 |
Paul Collier Lisa Chauvet and Hdvard Hegre | 104 |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 215 |
Potential changes in cereal yields | 247 |
Hunger and malnutrition | 305 |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 334 |
Water and sanitation | 355 |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 430 |
The challenge of reducing international trade | 451 |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 504 |
Average number of coups per year | 123 |
Disease control | 126 |
Age distribution of deaths | 131 |
11 | 147 |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 164 |
The benefits and costs of alternative strategies | 180 |
and low values of the Heritage | 183 |
Transnational terrorism | 516 |
243 | 557 |
ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES | 563 |
Women and development | 585 |
Expert panel ranking | 657 |
Conclusion | 680 |
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