Prioritizing Development

Herausgeber: Lomborg, Bjorn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the UN's development targets up until 2030, and the case for prioritizing the most powerful investment areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1127g
• ISBN-13: 9781108415453
• ISBN-10: 1108415458
• Artikelnr.: 50014773

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Stefan Dercon and Stephen A. O'Connell; Introduction Bjorn
Lomborg; 1. Benefits and costs of air pollution targets for the post-2015
development agenda Bjorn Larsen; 2. Targets for biodiversity and
deforestation Anil Markandya; 3. Climate change Isabel Galiana; 4. Beyond
civil war: the costs of interpersonal violence James Fearon and Anke
Hoeffler; 5. Data revolution: the cost and benefit of data needed to
monitor the post-2015 development agenda Morten Jerven; 6. Post-2015
consensus: education challenge paper George Psacharopoulos; 7. Benefits and
costs of the energy targets for the post-2015 development agenda Isabel
Galiana and Amy Sopinka; 8. Benefits and costs of the IFF targets for the
post-2015 development agenda Alex Cobham; 9. Benefits and costs of the
trade targets for the post-2015 development agenda Kym Anderson; 10.
Benefits and costs of the health targets for the post-2015 development
agenda Prabhat Jha, Ryan Hum, Cindy L. Gauvreau and Keeley Jordan; 11.
Benefits and costs of the non-communicable disease targets for the
post-2015 development agenda Rachel Nugent and Elizabeth Brouwer; 12.
Benefits and costs of the women's health targets for the post-2015
development agenda Dara Lee Luca, Johanne Helene Iversen, Alyssa Shiraishi
Lubet, Elizabeth Mitgang, Kristine Husøy Onarheim, Klaus Prettner and David
E. Bloom; 13. Benefits and costs of TB control for the post-2015
development agenda Anna Vassall; 14. Benefits and costs of the infant
mortality targets for the post-2015 development agenda Günther Fink; 15.
Benefits and costs of the HIV/AIDS targets for the post-2015 development
agenda Pascal Geldsetzer, Salal Humair, David E. Bloom and Till
Bärnighausen; 16. Benefits and costs of the Malaria targets for the
post-2015 consensus project Neha Raykar and Ramanan Laxminarayan; 17.
Benefits and costs of digital technology: infrastructure targets for the
post-2015 development agenda Emmanuelle Auriol and Alexia Lee González
Fanfalone; 18. Returns to investment in reducing postharvest food losses
and increasing agricultural productivity growth Mark W. Rosegrant, Eduardo
Magalhaes, Rowena A. Valmonte-Santos and Daniel Mason-D'Croz; 19. Benefits
and costs of the gender equality targets for the post-2015 development
agenda Irma Clots-Figueras; 20. Benefits and costs of the food and
nutrition targets for the post-2015 development agenda Susan Horton and
John Hoddinott; 21. Benefits and costs of the population and demography
targets for the post-2015 development agenda Hans-Peter Kohler and Jere R.
Behrman; 22. Benefits and costs of two science and technology targets for
the post-2015 development agenda Keith Maskus; 23. Benefits and costs of
the water sanitation and hygiene targets for the post-2015 development
agenda Guy Hutton; 24. Benefits and costs of the poverty targets for the
post-2015 development agenda John Gibson; 25. Good governance and the
sustainable development goals Mary E. Hilderbrand; Conclusion: identifying
phenomenal development targets Finn Kydland, Tom Schelling and Nancy
Stokey; How to implement the global goals, knowing what does a lot of good
and what doesn't Bjorn Lomborg.