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Solutions for the world's biggest problems : costs and benefits /
This title offers a rigorous overview of 23 of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Financial instability / Peter Blair Henry
- Lack of intellectual property rights / Keith E. Maskus
- Money laundering / Donato Masciandaro
- Subsidies and trade barriers / Kym Anderson
- Air pollution / Guy Hutton
- Climate change / Gary Yohe
- Deforestation / Henk Folmer and G. Cornelis van Kooten
- Land degradation / Ian Coxhead and Ragnar Øygard
- The economics of biodiversity loss / Dan Biller
- Vulnerability to natural disasters / Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
- Arms proliferation / J. Paul Dunne
- Conflicts / Paul Collier
- Corruption / Susan Rose-Ackerman
- Lack of education / Peter F. Orazem
- Terrorism / Daniel Linotte
- Drugs / Jeffrey A. Miron
- Disease control / Dean T. Jamison
- Lack of people of working age / Robert E. Wright and Katerina Lisenkova
- Living conditions of children / Harry Anthony Patrinos
- Living conditions of women / Brinda Viswanathan
- Hunger and malnutrition / Jere R. Behrman, Harold Alderman and John Hoddinott
- Unsafe water and lack of sanitation / Guy Hutton
- Population: migration / Michael J. Greenwood
- Conclusion: Making your own prioritization / Bjørn Lomborg.