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people around the world have been asked about their willingness to pay for small reduction in mortality risks. The analysis … the risk reduction people have been asked to value were found to be the factors having the strongest impact on VSL, but a … fatality risk reductions can play an important role in the development of more cost-effective public policies. …
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Illicit trade in counterfeit goods causes economic damage by reducing sales and profits as well as innovation incentives in legitimate industries. At the same time, some counterfeits can be of low quality and create significant additional risks, including health risks (fake pharmaceuticals or...
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in risk to children. Questions such as how to elicit children’s preferences, what valuation methodology and benefit …
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"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk … by officials providing information on risk and designing policies for managing them. Further consideration is also given … public policy, risk analysis and environmental and resource economics will value the useful examples found in this …
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possible or necessarily in the best interest of citizens for all risks to be removed. A risk-based approach to the design and … implementation of regulation can help to ensure that regulatory approaches are efficient, effective and account for risk/risk … tradeoffs across policy objectives. Risk-based approaches to the design of regulation and compliance strategies can improve the …
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The publication "provides an overview of the disaster risk assessment and financing practices of a broad range of … economies relative to guidance elaborated in G20/OECD Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing. Based on survey … provides a global overview of the approaches that economies facing various levels of disaster risk and economic development …
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The publication provides an overview of the disaster risk assessment and financing practices of a broad range of … economies relative to guidance elaborated in G20/OECD Framework for Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Financing. The … international organisations, and provides a global overview of the approaches that economies facing various levels of disaster risk …
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Recent global shocks, such as the 2008 financial crisis, have driven policy makers and industry strategists to re-examine how to prepare for and respond to events that can begin locally and propagate around the world with devastating effects on society and the economy. This report considers how...
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