{"id":12156,"date":"2015-02-24T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12156"},"modified":"2015-02-24T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:10:28","slug":"the-return-on-investment-of-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-return-on-investment-of-saving-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return On Investment Of Saving The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/022415_0452_TheReturnOn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations&#8217; Millennium Development Goals have cautiously been hailed a success with several being met ahead of target. Now the United Nations is working on a set of &#8220;Sustainable Development Goals&#8221; and one economist analyzed the goals that will likely lead to the most development:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air pollution kills 7 million people a year. Changing how people cook would save lives and generate $10 for every dollar spent.<\/li>\n<li>Activists could also try to upgrade people to more high tech stoves that generate less smoke but that would create only $2 of value for every dollar spent.<\/li>\n<li>The most beneficial policy would be to reduce barriers to trade. According to one estimate this would generate $3,426 for developing countries, for every $1 spent.<\/li>\n<li>Other ideas that would generate high returns per dollar include providing reproductive-health services ($120), increasing nursery school enrollment ($33), and broadband penetration ($17).<\/li>\n<li>Some argue that the UN should focus on &#8220;data for development&#8221; but the act of monitoring is expensive and will take away the money available for actual development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read what this methodology has to say about the return on combating climate change, what other economists think, and much more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21640361-debate-heats-up-about-what-goals-world-should-set-itself-2030?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21640361-debate-heats-up-about-what-goals-world-should-set-itself-2030?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations&#8217; Millennium Development Goals have cautiously been hailed a success with several being met ahead of target. Now the United Nations is working on a set of &#8220;Sustainable Development Goals&#8221; and one economist analyzed the goals that will likely lead to the most development: Air pollution kills 7 million people a year. Changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/022415_0452_TheReturnOn1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12159,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12156\/revisions\/12159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}