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Reuters has released a new article which reports on the findings from our research series on water and sanitation targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Overall, building toilets to eliminate defecation outside in rural areas would cost $13 billion a year to 2030 and give benefits of $84...

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Reuters has released an article which discusses the findings for Food Security and Nutrition. A total of $239 billion invested over the next 15 years, in road and railway connections to connect farms to markets and in electricity supplies to improve cold storage, would yield benefits of $3.1...

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Low-income countries, where the world's poorest one billion live, will spend a measly $14 per person on public health care this year. So what are the smartest post-2015 targets for health? Bjorn Lomborg discusses on Time. There are lots of excellent proposals to address particular health challenges...

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The debate heats up about what goals the world should set itself for 2030 The Economist has featured the work of the Post-2015 Consensus project. The article gives an overview of some of the most bang-for-the-buck targets established by our 60 teams of economist and gives reason why narrowing the...

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Reuters has published an article reporting on the findings from our research on governance targets for the post-2015 development agenda. The article entitled “How can U.N. measure if better governance programs work?" interviews both Mary Hilderbrand, author of the main assessment paper and Aart...

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The Guardian has published an article by Bjorn Lomborg which reports on the findings from our research on post-2015 health targets in regard to infectious diseases. Ebola got most of the attention in 2014. It killed about 8,000 people. Meanwhile, over the same period of time about 3.6 million...

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Bjorn Lomborg’s January contribution to Project Syndicate discusses the role broadband could play in alleviating poverty. In a new analysis , Emmanuelle Auriol and Alexia Lee González Fanfalone of the Toulouse School of Economics suggest that broadband could be one of the best investments for the...

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China Daily has published Bjorn Lomborg’s op-ed discussing the findings from our research on air pollution targets in the post-2015 development agenda. Air quality has improved dramatically in rich countries over the past century. Yet air pollution is still a huge problem, especially in the...

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently proposed establishing a “comprehensive program of action on data” for the SDGs. But proper data for the currently proposed 169 targets could cost as much as 1/8th of all aid. So how much are we willing to spend on measuring the post-2015 development agenda...

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The Huffington Post has published an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg which discusses the findings from our research on post-2015 targets to address Poverty. Extreme poverty -- by current reckoning, living on less than $1.25 a day -- is a continuing problem for far too many people in today's world. It is...

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