Author : Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1107028698
A timely thought-provoking book, which examines the first-ever comparative cost-benefit analysis of responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Author : Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139577166
Thirty years after the identification of the disease that became known as AIDS, humanitarian organizations warn that the fight against HIV/AIDS has slowed, amid a funding shortfall and donor fatigue. In this book, Bjørn Lomborg brings together research by world-class specialist authors, a foreword by UNAIDS founding director Peter Piot and perspectives from Nobel Laureates and African civil society leaders to identify the most effective ways to tackle the pandemic across sub-Saharan Africa. There remains an alarming lack of high-quality data evaluating responses to HIV. We still know too little about what works, where and how to replicate our successes. This book offers the first comprehensive attempt by teams of authors to analyze HIV/AIDS policy choices using cost-benefit analysis, across six major topics. This approach provides a provocative fresh look at the best ways to scale up the fight against this killer epidemic.
Author : Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2012
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9781139573665
A timely thought-provoking book, which examines the first-ever comparative cost-benefit analysis of responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Author : Bjrn Lomborg
Publisher :
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN :
Author : Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107435242
Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how to combat problems ranging from armed conflicts, corruption and trade barriers, to natural disasters, hunger, education and climate change. For each case, 'Alternative Perspectives' are also included to provide a critique and make other suggestions for investment. In addition, a panel of senior economists, including four Nobel Laureates, rank the attractiveness of each policy proposal in terms of its anticipated cost-benefit ratio. This thought-provoking book opens up debate, encouraging readers to come up with their own rankings and decide which solutions are smarter than others.
Author : Rachel Sullivan Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107090725
This book considers the response to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa by examining family planning programs and HIV prevention efforts.
Author : Bjørn Lomborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107292433
There are often blanket claims that the world is facing more problems than ever but there is a lack of empirical data to show where things have deteriorated or in fact improved. In this book, some of the world's leading economists discuss ten problems that have blighted human development, ranging from malnutrition, education, and climate change, to trade barriers and armed conflicts. Costs of the problems are quantified in percent of GDP, giving readers a unique opportunity to understand the development of each problem over the past century and the likely development into the middle of this century, and to compare the size of the challenges. For example: how bad was air pollution in 1900? How has it deteriorated and what about the future? Did climate change cost more than malnutrition in 2010? This pioneering initiative to provide answers to many of these questions will undoubtedly spark debate amongst a wide readership.
Author : Bjorn Lomborg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108245889
This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid up until 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn Lomborg, determine what pursuing different targets will cost and achieve in social, environmental and economic benefits. There are 169 targets, covering every area of international development – from health to education, sanitation to conflict. Together, these analyses make the case for prioritizing the most effective development investments. A panel of Nobel Laureate economists identify a set of 19 phenomenal development targets, and argue that this would achieve as much as quadrupling the global aid budget.
Author : Richard A. Crosby
Publisher :
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0190675489
A COMPREHENSIVE NEW REFERENCE WORK ON STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTING HIV Structural interventions -- changes to environment aimed at influencing health behaviors -- are the most universal and cost-effective tool in preventing new incidences of HIV. They are not easy to get right, however. Structural Interventions for HIV Prevention offers an authoritative reference for both understanding these programs and instituting them to greatest effect. Whether through changes to policy, environment, social/community norms, or a combination of each, this volume offers actionable and attainable blueprints to creating and evaluating programs in any setting or country. It is an essential resource for researchers and practitioners in the continuing fights against HIV.
Author : Kate Tulenko
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611682681
Dramatically recounts the causes and cascading effects of American insourcing of foreign healthcare workers
