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Have your view on the most serious challenges facing the world today in this COMPLETELY NEW edition!

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!

First edition sold over 16,500 copies worldwide and was voted one of the best books by The Economist in 2004
Contains results of the Copenhagen Consensus 2008
Over 50 contributors including 5 Nobel laureates

Introduction by Bjørn Lomborg

Part I. The Challenges:

Air pollution by Bjørn Larsen, Guy Hutton and Neha Khanna. Alternative perspective by Jitendra Shah
Conflicts – the security challenges in conflict prone countries by Paul Collier, Lisa Chauvet and Haavard Hegre. Alternative perspective by Ibrahim A. Elbadawi
Diseases – disease control by Dean T. Jamison, Prabhat Jha and David Bloom. Alternative perspective by David Canning
Education by Peter F. Orazem, Paul Glewwe and Harry Patrinos. Alternative perspectives by Victor Lavy and Lant Pritchett
Global warming by Gary W. Yohe, Richard G. Richels, Richard S. J. Tol and Geoffrey J. Blanford. Alternative perspectives by Chris Green and Anil Markandya
Malnutrition and hunger by Sue Horton, Harald Alderman and Juan A. Rivera. Alternative perspectives by Reynaldo Martorell and Anil B. Deolalikar
Sanitation and water by Dale Whittington, W. Michael Hannemann, Claudia Sadoff and Marc Jeuland. Alternative perspectives by Jenna Davis, Frank Rijsberman and Alix Peterson Zwane
Subsidies and trade barriers by Kym Anderson and L. Alan Winters. Alternative perspectives by Alan V. Deardorff and Anthony J. Venables
Terrorism by Todd Sandler, Daniel G. Arce and Walter Enders. Alternative perspectives by S. Brock Blomberg and Michael D. Intriligator
Women and development by Elizabeth M. King, Stephan Klasen and Maria Porter. Alternative perspectives by Lawrence Haddad and Aysit Tansel

Part II. Ranking the Opportunities:

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