ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

Human values

Costliness

Costliness

Cost

Broader

Expensiveness-Cheapness

Problem

Prohibitive cost of education

Prohibitive cost of business security

Misappropriation of resources for high cost research projects

Youth unemployment

Transfer of industries to low-wage countries

Prohibitive medical expenses

Prohibitive cost of product liability protection

Prohibitive cost of nutritious food

Prohibitive cost of necessities in rural communities

Prohibitive cost of living

Prohibitive cost of land

Prohibitive cost of knowledge and information

Prohibitive cost of hospital facilities

Prohibitive cost of goods and services

Prohibitive cost of eye-glasses

Prohibitive cost of basic services

Prohibitive cost of animal disease control

Misappropriation of resources for high cost civil engineering projects

Lack of facilities for disturbed children

Inaccessible scientific information

High cost of housing

Excessive growth of social expenditure

Excessive cost of medical drugs

Excessive cost of animal protein

Environmental hazards of decommissioned nuclear power plants

Cost-conscious managed health care

Cost overruns in large-scale public programmes

Burdensome cost of religious ceremonies

Unmanageable cost of dying

Uninformed cost speculation

Unavailability of building sites

Rising cost of unemployment benefits

Prohibitive cost of water

Prohibitive cost of transportation

Prohibitive cost of safety equipment

Prohibitive cost of road construction

Prohibitive cost of prisons

Prohibitive cost of maintaining comprehensive document collections

Prohibitive cost of life insurance

Prohibitive cost of insurance

Prohibitive cost of imported goods

Prohibitive cost of home maintenance

Prohibitive cost of fuel

Prohibitive cost of fishing equipment

Prohibitive cost of fertilizer

Prohibitive cost of farm equipment

Prohibitive cost of equipment maintenance

Prohibitive cost of electricity

Prohibitive cost of cooperative start-up

Prohibitive cost of connection to public utilities

Prohibitive cost of capital equipment

Prohibitive cost of building maintenance

Prohibitive construction costs

Long-term shortage of uranium resources

Labour displacement due to import competition

Incomplete cost projections

High cost of natural gas trade infrastructure

Excessive cost of transferring funds across borders

Excessive cost of effective prosecution of offenders

Escalating cost of employers liability insurance

Dependence on costly trading intermediaries

Unreported financial losses

Undervaluation of asset replacement costs

Prohibitive labour costs

Prohibitive cost of travel documents

Prohibitive cost of teaching staff

Prohibitive cost of private medical care

Prohibitive cost of parenthood

Prohibitive cost of nuclear power plants

Prohibitive cost of newspapers

Prohibitive cost of maintenance

Prohibitive cost of maintaining imported technologies

Prohibitive cost of intergovernmental aid negotiations

Prohibitive cost of inadequate development policies

Prohibitive cost of farm labour

Prohibitive cost of electoral campaigns

Prohibitive cost of crop treatment

Prohibitive cost of contraceptives

Prohibitive cost of coastal protection against sea damage

Prohibitive cost of advertising

Prohibitive cost of abortion

Prohibitive construction cost of community buildings

Lack of full cost accounting of consumer products

Inflated art values

Inadequate institutional mechanisms for cost-effective debt negotiation

Inadequate emergency services

High interest rates

Falsification of programme evaluations

Excessive use of resources on expensive medical techniques

Economically inefficient regulations

Cost disease of personal services

Strategy

Using cost benefit analysis tools for biodiversity impact assessment

Undertaking cost-cutting

Reducing expense of dying

Reducing cost of drugs

Assessing cost and benefits of different development policies for human and environmental health

Studying cost disease of personal services

Procuring low-cost farm supplies

Clean pollution control technologies for Industry

Using full cost accounting

Undertaking project cost-benefit analyses

Studying cost engineering

Studying causes of prohibitive cost of housing for the poor

Stimulating cost benefit effectiveness

Showing low-cost building techniques

Setting guidelines for cost/benefit assessment of cleaner production

Reporting cost overruns

Reducing transfer of industries to low-wage countries

Reducing disparity between income and cost of housing

Reducing cost of transport

Reducing cost of social security

Reducing cost of reform schools

Reducing cost of private medical care

Reducing cost of parenthood

Reducing cost of nutritious food

Reducing cost of nuclear power plants

Reducing cost of necessities in rural communities

Reducing cost of necessities

Reducing cost of money

Reducing cost of maintenance

Reducing cost of living

Reducing cost of knowledge

Reducing cost of housing

Reducing cost of high technology medical cures

Reducing cost of goods and services

Reducing cost of emergency services

Reducing cost of education

Reducing cost of development policies

Reducing cost of basic services

Reducing cost of animal disease control

Reducing art values

Providing training on low-cost waste collection and disposal options

Providing low cost cartage

Providing full cost accounting of consumer products

Producing nutritious low cost meat

Producing low-cost food supplements

Producing good low-cost publications

Offering low-cost practical training

Obtaining low interest loans

Obtaining favourable cost concessions

Modelling cost and effectiveness of alternative health strategies

Minimizing initial cost factors

Limiting low-cost housing

Investing part of waste disposal cost in waste minimization

Introducing low-cost wholesome food

Introducing low cost technologies

Inflating cost of social security

Inflating cost of necessities

Inflating cost of information

Increasing transfer of industries to low-wage countries

Increasing research on cost-effective alternatives for hazardous processes

Increasing information exchange on low cost sanitation

Increasing availability of low-cost sanitation options

Improving institutional mechanisms for cost-effective debt negotiation

Implementing efficient rural water cost-recovery programmes

Identifying low-cost options for waste management

Establishing cost accounting

Establishing attractive low-cost cafe

Ensuring full cost recovery from waste generators

Ensuring full cost recovery for infrastructure services

Ensuring full cost recovery

Developing low-cost approach to improving drinking water supply

Developing low cost housing policy

Developing cost effective merchandise

Developing corporate low-cost rentals

Determining resource cost factors in production

Determining labour cost factors in production

Determining equipment depreciation cost factors in production

Determining cost factors

Demonstrating low-cost feasible designs

Coping with cost of inadequate development policies

Cooperating on cost-effect analysis and environmental impact procedures

Concealing real costs of consumer products

Avoiding cost overruns in large-scale public programmes

Assisting water agencies to become more cost-effective

Appropriating resources for high cost research projects

Appropriating resources for high cost civil engineering projects

Applying water tariffs reflecting cost of water

Analysing cost and benefits of labour-based approaches

Adapting cost-effective methods of environmental control to local conditions

Acquiring low-cost building supplies

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Commerce » Purchasing, supplying

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

D0969

DOCID

11409690

D7NID

192918

Last update

Dec 2, 2024