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The Growth Blog is a forum for you - the policy maker, the academic, the student, and the interested citizen of the world - to agree, disagree, or simply to engage current practitioners on policies and issues critical to development. This platform was inspired by the series of meetings that the Commission on Growth and Development held around the world over the course of the last two years. Of the many lessons that emerged in the deliberations, the one that stands out is that inclusive growth requires inclusive thinking, and inclusive discussion.

 

prioritization

Sorting Out Priorities

Submitted by Hoyt Bleakley on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 11:19.

With the mass of options presented to policy makers, the task of sorting out priorities can seem overwhelming. So, how to do it?  A simple answer from economics is to intervene when people don’t have the incentives to do the right thing.

And when it comes to contagious disease, this happens a lot. 

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