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An Alternative Plan for Development in Haiti

Bjorn Lomborg discusses the Haïti Priorise project and the upcoming research releases. With a newly elected government comes big choices: Resources are limited, as they are in every country. How does Haiti choose be...

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Copenhagen Consensus one of the world's top think tanks

The University of Pennsylvania asked more than 2,500 journalists, policymakers, donors and scholars to rank the world's best think tanks in 2016.

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A Digital Strategy for Bangladesh’s Biggest Problems

Dr. Lomborg and  Mr. Chowdhury, policy advisor in the a2i program and a member of the prime minister’s Digital Bangladesh taskforce discuss how digitizing government services could create significant savings for Ban...

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Bjorn Lomborg meets with Bangladeshi PM

Dr. Lomborg met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh in December 2016 while both were attending the SDGs conference in Dhaka. The event, “Delivering Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh: Concepts, ...

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Prospect’s International Affairs Think Tank of the Year

The Copenhagen Consensus Center is the winner of Prospect Magazine’s 2016 Think Tank of the Year award in the “International Affairs” category for think tanks based in the US. The Center's work was commended by the ...

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Bangladesh Priorities Book Launch

Bangladesh publisher, Adorn Books, published a short book on the project entitled Bangladesh Priorities: Ranking the smartest solutions by their benefits and costs. The book is available in both English and Bangla a...

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Prothom Alo discusses Bangladesh Priorities project

One of Bangladesh's leading newspapers Prothom Alo has published a full page editorial on the work of the Bangladesh Priorities project as well their collaboration with the project to promote the smartest solutions ...

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The Domestic Violence Crisis

Anke Hoeffler, Research Officer, Department of Economics, University of Oxford joined the Domestic Violence Crisis: Mobilizing the Public and Private Sectors panel presented by The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan Public ...

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Congratulations to President Juan Manuel Santos for winning the Nobel Peace Prize!

I had the privilege of meeting the President of Colombia to discuss priorities for the implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, last year. We had an excellent discussion about how to make the world ...

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Debate on poverty eradication

Bjorn Lomborg responds to the debate on smart solutions to tackle poverty in Bangladesh.  The project 'Bangladesh Priorities' set out to have a conversation on what is best for Bangladesh. In that spirit, I welcome ...

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