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A New Dawn
The Wall Street Journal: The benefits of climate-change policies are limited and costly. Instead, the president-elect needs to coolly evaluate competing priorities, says Bjørn Lomborg. |
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A Drug Exec and a Congressman Spend $10 Billion
The Wall Street Journal: Three weeks ago The Wall Street Journal kicked off a debate on how best to allocate scare resources to solve the world's problems. |
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Newt Gingrich and Jerry Brown Spend $10 Billion
The Wall Street Journal: Two weeks ago The Wall Street Journal kicked off a debate on how best to allocate scare resources to solve the world's problems. |
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How to Get the Biggest Bang for $10 Billion - II
The Wall Street Journal: Last Monday The Wall Street Journal kicked off a debate on how best to allocate scare resources to solve the world's problems. |
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How to Get the Biggest Bang for 10 Billion Bucks
The Wall Street Journal: If you had a spare $10 billion over the next four years, how would you spend it to achive the most for humanity? |
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A Great Unpopular Idea
Newsweek: The Doha plan isn't sexy, but it's the smartest answer to global problems. |
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Doing Good Efficiently
Project Syndicate: Policymakers can concoct many excuses not to invest in global aid and development projects. Three weeks ago, I joined a group of five Nobel laureates... |
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Air Pollution
Copenhagen Consensus Center: Hosting the Olympic Games has forced China to get serious about the smog that chokes its capital city. |
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Education
Copenhagen Consensus Center: A fortune is spent in an effort to get more - and better - education to children in the developing world. A lot of this money could be better spent. |
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Women and Development
Project Syndicate: A girl born in South Asia or sub-Saharan Africa faces a cruel double burden. She will grow up in a region beset by poverty, disease, war or famine. |
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Water Pipe Dreams
Project Syndicate: Despite recent progress, more than one billion people still lack decent water supplies, and more than two billion go without sanitation services. |
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A "Portfolio" Approach to Climate Change
Project Syndicate: The world has tried with little success to cut carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. The enormous effort expended to bring the Protocol into force... |
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The Economic Benefits of Disease Control
Project Syndicate: Large parts of the world have not enjoyed the remarkable global progress in health conditions that have taken place over the past century. |
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Does Military Intervention Work?
Project Syndicate: Because peacekeeping initiatives in post-conflict countries are expensive and complex, and because the war in Iraq has undermined rich nations' belief... |
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The Hungry Billion
Project Syndicate: Hunger has slipped from the rich world's consciousness. Televised images of Third World children with distended bellies no longer shock viewers. |
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Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Growth
Project Syndicate: Protectionist sentiment and fear of globalization are on the rise. In the United States, presidential candidates appeal to anxious voters... |
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Re-Thinking Counter-Terrorism
Project Syndicate: Grim-faced border guards and tough security measures at international airports provide powerful reassurance... |
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A Time for Clarity
Project Syndicate: Johannesburg - Terrorism and global warming loom, in many people's minds, as the greatest threats to the planet. |
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