How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

Abridged version of Global Crises, Global Solutions, discussing the ten most serious world-wide challenges.

Bjørn Lomborg (Edited by)

9780521685719, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 June 2006

208 pages, 7 tables
19.8 x 12.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.207 kg

'… makes for good reading on subjects that I encourage all my students to reflect on.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Edited by Bjørn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. This unique book provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation and access to clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert who defines the scale of the issue and examines a range of policy options.

Introduction: what should we do first? Bjorn Lomborg
1. Meeting the challenge of global warming William R. Cline
Opponents' views Robert Mendelsohn and Alan S. Manne
2. Communicable diseases Anne Mills and Sam Shillcutt
Opponents' views David B. Evans and Jacques van der Gaag
3. The challenge of reducing the global incidence of civil war Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler
Opponents' views Michael D. Intriligator and Tony Addison
4. Towards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education Lant Pritchett
Opponents' views T. Paul Schultz and Ludger Wößmann
5. The challenge of poor governance and corruption Susan Rose-Ackerman
Opponent's views Jens Christopher Andvig and Jean Cartier-Bresson
6. Hunger and malnutrition Jere R. Behrman, Harold Alderman and John Hoddinott
Opponent's views Peter Svedberg and Simon Appleton
7. Population and migration Philip Martin
Opponent's views Mark Rosenzweig and Roger Böhning
8. The water challenge Frank Rijsberman
Opponent's views John J. Boland and Henry Vaux, Jr.
9. Subsidies and trade barriers Kym Anderson
Opponent's views Jan Pronk and Arvind Panagariya.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], Development economics & emerging economies [KCM]