Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems: Costs and Benefits (Electronic book text)

The world has many pressing problems. And many organizations and individuals are devoted to doing something about them. But 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 comparative costs and benefits of each 'solution'. Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems offers a comprehensive overview of twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide readers with a short survey of the state-of-the-art analysis and sketch out some promising policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios. One of the main conclusions is that there are no absolute 'right' answers but it is important that there is as wide and as informed a debate as possible.