Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems: Costs and BenefitsBjørn Lomborg Cambridge University Press, 2007年10月18日 - 442 頁 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 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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20.2 Benefit/cost ratios 21.3 Overview table 22.1 Estimates 23.1 Possible transfers alternative discount rates analysis of ECD assumptions in five Bank’s benefit-cost by developing benefit-cost ratios 398 Bjørn Lomborg BRINDA VISWANATHAN contributors Copenhagen Consensus costs and benefits deforestation Department of Economics developing world sub-regions discount rates 393 factors of production gainers migrant workers global cost-benefit analysis Guy Hutton Ian Coxhead intervention for South Katerina Lisenkova lags at alternative land degradation Lead Economist losers native workers Maskus options 370 Paul Collier Paul Dunne Possible cost-benefit ratios Possible transfers inherent primary school interventions Professor of Economics ratios under alternative received with various regions WS&S MDG Results of global school interventions 365 select education indicators selected developing regions Sensitivity of benefit-cost South Asia sub-Saharan Africa survival probabilities 394 SUSAN ROSE-ACKERMAN table for benefit-cost tables 19.1 Cost-effectiveness University of Colorado University of Strathclyde various lags World Bank world sub-regions Sensitivity World's Biggest Problems