Latin American Development Priorities: Costs and Benefits - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521766907 ISBN 13: 9780521766906

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not effective. Latin American Development Priorities shows how limited resources could be used for the greatest benefit of the Latin American and Caribbean region. A panel of economists met over three days in San José to review proposals to tackle the ten most important challenges, which emerged from a survey by the Inter-American Development Bank. The expert panel was asked a question which appears simple but is actually very difficult to answer: What should Latin American governments do with an additional nominal $10 billion? Hard choices are needed if Latin America's problems are to be tackled effectively. This book provides the means to make those choices as objectively as possible.

About this title

Book Description:

Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. This book follows the Copenhagen Consensus process to show how limited resources could be used for the greatest benefit of the Latin American and Caribbean region.

About the Author:

Bjørn Lomborg is Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. He is the author of the controversial bestseller The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge, 2001), and was named as one of the most globally influential people by Time magazine in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521766907
• ISBN 13: 9780521766906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 724
• Editor: Lomborg Bjørn