Format:
XV, 384 S.
ISBN:
9781139225793
Content:
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
Content:
Air pollution : global damage costs from 1900 to 2050 / Guy Hutton -- Armed conflicts : the economic welfare costs of conflict / S. Brock Blomberg and Gregory D. Hess -- Climate change : the economic impact of climate change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Richard S. J. Tol -- Ecosystems and biodiversity : economic loss of ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050 / Anil Markandya and Aline Chiabai -- Education : the income and equity loss of not having a faster rate of human capital accumulation / Harry Anthony Patrinos and George Psacharopoulos -- Gender inequality : a key global challenge : reducing losses due to gender inequality / Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Human health : the twentieth-century transformation of human health : its magnitude and value / Dean T. Jamison ... [et al.] -- Malnutrition : global economic losses attributable to malnutrition 1900-2000 and projections to 2050 / Sue Horton and Richard H. Steckel -- Trade barriers : costing global trade barriers, 1900 to 2050 / Kym Anderson -- Water and sanitation : economic losses from poor water and sanitation : past, present, and future / Marc Jeuland ... [et al.]
Note:
Includes index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107027336
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107679337
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107027336
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139225793
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Lomborg, Bjørn 1965-
