International Public Goods: Incentives, Measurement, and FinancingMarco Ferroni, Ashoka Mody Springer Science & Business Media, 2011 M06 28 - 196 pages Security concerns, the AIDS epidemic, environmental degradation, and financial contagion are salient features of today's landscape of threats to global stability. A characteristic of these challenges is that they cannot be solved by individual nations acting alone. Enlightened cooperation is needed. This book focuses on actions in the international arena to complement domestic efforts in addressing a set of policy challenges that has become more prominent in the age of globalization. It focuses on the strategic and practical challenges of fostering solutions that have the character of international public goods, paying particular attention to the financing of these goods. |
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International Public Goods: Incentives, Measurement, and Financing Marco Ferroni,Ashoka Mody No preview available - 2012 |
International Public Goods: Incentives, Measurement, and Financing Marco Ferroni,Ashoka Mody No preview available - 2002 |
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ability to pay action Africa agreement Agricultural aid allocated aid spending allocated to IPGs Asian Development Bank Barrett best shot bilateral donors budget chapter club complementary activities contributions coordination core activities cost coun cross-border developing countries development assistance Development Bank disease economic economies of scope emissions environment environmental example expenditures Ferroni finance IPGs financing of IPGs free-riding funding gbps global public global warming governments greenhouse gas HGIS incentives increase infrastructure institutions Inter-American Development Bank international cooperation International Public joint products Kanbur Kyoto Protocol loans ment Montreal Protocol multilateral national public needed nonexcludable nonrival NPGs official participate peacekeeping percent pollution problem programs provision of IPGs pure public reducing regional public river blindness Sandler share of aid spending on IPGs spillovers standards strategic supply tion trade treaty United Kingdom United Nations vaccine weakest link World Bank 2001