Global and Regional Public Goods: A Prognosis for Collective Action
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Global public goods and health.
Health improvement requires collective as well as individual action, and the health of poor populations in particular requires collective action between countries as well as within them. Initiatives such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reflect a growing awareness of this fact. However, initiating, organizing and financing collective actions for health at the global le...
متن کاملThe ecology of collective action: A public goods and sanctions experiment with controlled group formation
Mounting evidence suggests that the outcomes of laboratory public goods games, and collective action in firms, communities, and polities, reflect the presence in most groups of individuals having differing preferences and beliefs. We designed a public goods experiment with targeted punishment opportunities to (a) confirm subject heterogeneity, (b) test the stability of subjects’ types and (c) t...
متن کاملGlobalization, global public goods, and health
Globalization is one of the characteristics that define the beginning of the 21st century. Yet, there is no single agreed definition of what it is, and there are widely divergent views of what it means in terms of its economic and social repercussions, including its impact on health. What is clear is that it is a multidimensional process encompassing economic, social, cultural, political, and t...
متن کاملGlobal Public Goods , Inequality and Institutional Change
In recent years, there has been a huge increase in interest in the environment and its interaction with the economy. A key feature of this literature is its recognition of the interdependence between the economy and the environment. In general, this interdependence operates in both directions and it is poorly understood. A rather overlooked issue is how economic institutions a¤ect our ability a...
متن کاملCollective learning from calls for global action
This document was originally prepared for the planning meeting in January 1981 of the Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose (described;n this issue, pages 7.10. and 11-14). Despite Its many J/mltations, it identifies concerns which need to be borne in mind when reflecting on the meflts of any new proposal for action at this time. The proposals emergmg from the recent Casablanca Forum of ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Fiscal Studies
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0143-5671,1475-5890
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.1998.tb00286.x