Overview

Poverty, disease, armed conflict and environmental degradation! These are just some of the problems faced by the world. The world needs solutions to these problems and it needs them fast.

• Brings together leading economists to provide an evidence-based survey of 23 of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population.
• Sketches out practical and implementable policy solutions showing the costs and benefits attached to each problem.
• Complete with free downloadable software enabling readers to make their own cost-benefit analyses.

Downloadable material

Click here for the access to the press release.

To accompany the book freely downloadable software is available at www.copenhagenconsensus.com.

Contents

List of figures;
List of tables;

1. Introduction Bjørn Lomborg;

Part I. Economy
2. Financial instability Peter Blair Henry
3. Lack of intellectual property rights Keith E. Maskus
4. Money laundering Donato Masciandaro
5. Subsidies and trade barriers Kym Anderson

Part II. Environment
6. Air pollution Guy Hutton
7. Climate change Gary Yohe
8. Deforestation Henk Folmer and G. Cornelis van Kooten
9. Land degradation Ian Coxhead and Ragnar Oygard
10. Loss of biodiversity Dan Biller
11. Vulnerability to natural disasters Roger A. Pielke

Part III. Governance
12. Arms proliferation Paul Dunne
13. Conflicts Paul Collier
14. Corruption Susan Rose-Ackerman
15. Lack of education Peter Orazem
16. Terrorism Daniel Linotte

Part IV. Health and Population
17. Drugs Jefrey A. Miron
18. Diseases Dean Jamison
19. Lack of people of working age Robert E. Wright and Katerina Lisenkova
20. Living conditions of children Harry Anthony Patrinos
21. Living conditions of women Brinda Viswanathan
22. Malnutrition/hunger Jere R. Behrman, Harold Alderman and John Hoddinott
23. Unsafe water and lack of sanitation Guy Hutton
24. Population: migration Michael J. Greenwood

Index.