WOULD YOU SPEND MONEY TODAY TO MAKE THE WORLD A SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER PLACE FOR YOUR children and grandchildren? Most of us would. But what if the benefi t would accrue only to your great-great-great-great-grandchildren, not born until the 22nd century? That’s an awfully distant time horizon for most people. Many would probably spend today’s resources on more immediate concerns. Economists model...

The global community should be outraged by the millions of children that either die or are disabled each year because of malnutrition. We know how to prevent and treat it. The missing link is the political will to place nutrition squarely on the development agenda and to commit the necessary resources to implement programs, particularly food fortification, that we know can deliver sustainable i...

I am and always have been in complete favour of investing in general practice to expand capacity to manage both urgent care and planned care that presents to us increasingly in our work. To that extent Dr Baker and the RCGP are uncontroversial in wishing to have an 11% increase in investment. Indeed I have suggested a 12% shift of resources to primary care. Where the RCGP and its leadership are...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and evaluate the environmental impacts estimate external costs benefits building operating a combined heat power (CHP) plant. This research will contribute scientific literature in field public capital investments CHP plants facilitate evaluation similar assessments studies by identifying relevant factors that affect society environment. Methodo...