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Decisions on investing in health as well as other policies require deciding how to best allocate available resources - recognizing that using labor, materials, and other resources for one purpose means that they cannot be used for other purposes. Approaches for economic evaluation, including...
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Abatement of global climate change is modeled as a two-period game between the industrialized "North" and developing "South." Using an integrated-assessment model to simulate the economic and environmental consequences of alternative abatement policies, cooperative and Nash solutions are...
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Conventionally, benefit-cost analysis focuses on economic efficiency, summing the values of a policy’s costs and benefits based on the preferences of those affected. There is widespread agreement that it should be supplemented with information on how the impacts are distributed across...
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Benefit-cost analysis and other forms of economic evaluation are powerful tools, encouraging the systematic collection and assessment of the evidence needed to support sound policy decisions. In low-and middle-income countries, where resources are very scarce and needs are very great, such...
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In benefit-cost analysis, ideally the values placed on nonfatal risk reductions would reflect the preferences of those affected by a policy; i.e., individuals’ willingness to exchange their own income to achieve a reduction in their own risk. Presumably, this willingness to pay (WTP) accounts...
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The estimates used to value mortality risk reductions are a major determinant of the benefits of many public health and environmental policies. These estimates (typically expressed as the value per statistical life, VSL) describe the willingness of those affected by a policy to exchange their...
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In October 2010, a group of leading thinkers on environmental policy met at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester for a conference in honour of Nobel Laureate Tom Schelling. This column presents a 10-point guideline for climate change policy co-authored by 26...
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