TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bjørn Lomborg
TI  - Global crises, global solutions
SN  - 978-0-52174122-4
AV  - 320.6 G51 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Globalization
KW  - International cooperation
N1  - Air pollution / Bjørn Larsen with Guy Hutton and Neha Khanna ; Alternative perspectives / Jitendra Shah -- The security challenge in conflict-prone countries / Paul Collier, Lisa Chauvet, and Ha?vard Hegre ; Alternative perspectives / Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, Andrew Mack -- Disease control / Dean T. Jamison, Prabhat Jha, and David E. Bloom ; Alternative perspectives / David Canning, Ramanan Laxminarayan -- The benefits and costs of alternative strategies to improve educational outcomes / Peter F. Orazem, Paul Glewwe, and Harry Patrinos ; Alternative perspectives / Victor Lavy, Lant Pritchett -- Climate change / Gary W. Yohe ... [et al.] ; Alternative perspectives / Chris Green, Anil Markandya -- Hunger and malnutrition / Sue Horton, Harold Alderman, and Juan A. Rivera ; Alternative perspectives / Reynaldo Martorell, Anil B. Deolalikar -- Water and sanitation / Dale Whittington, [et al.] ; Alternative perspectives / Jennifer Davis, Frank R. Rijsberman, and Alix Peterson Zwane -- The challenge of reducing international trade and migration barriers / Kym Anderson and L. Alan Winters ; Alternative perspectives / Alan V. Deardorff, Anthony J. Venables -- Transnational terrorism / Todd Sandler, Daniel G. Arce, and Walter Enders ; Alternative perspectives / S. Brock Blomberg, Michael D. Intriligator -- Women and development / Elizabeth M. King, Stephan Klasen, and Maria Porter ; Alternative perspectives / Lawerence Haddad, Aysit Tansel -- Expert panel ranking / Jogdish Bhagwati, [et al.]
N2  - In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. In this volume each problem is introduced by a world expert defining the scale of the problem and describing the costs and benefits of a range of policy options to improve the situation
ER  -