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The Best Ways to Fight Extreme Poverty

Bjorn Lomborg's July contribution to Project Syndicate address poverty targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  In 1950, people in South Korea and Pakistan earned roughly the same amount of money annually. Tod...

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How to Write the Worlds To-Do List

The New Yorker reports on both Bjorn Lomborg and the work of the Post-2015 Consensus Project.

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Bjorn Lomborg and the List That Could Save the World

Today’s Ozy has published a profile on Bjorn Lomborg and his advocacy for smart development targets for the post-2015 development agenda. 

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Fewer, effective development goals will help India much more

Bjorn Lomborg discusses the benefits that prioritizing smart post-2015 targets will have on India.  When it comes to health, the eradication of tuberculosis should be prioritised. In India, over 2 million develop TB...

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Here's how to wipe malaria off the map

A huge global commitment to reducing malaria has paid off and the goal of near zero deaths from the disease is realistic and affordable. A new article in the Guardian which cites our work on smart health targets for...

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$100 billion for malaria prevention and treatment

This week in Addis, governments agreed to pledge $100 billion in malaria prevention and treatment. The report cites the work of the Copenhagen Consensus, stating that cost-benefit assessment conducted on the goals a...

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Successors to Millennium Development Goals should be achievable - and clearly written

Dr. Lomborg met with Prof. Bibek Debroy in Delhi at NITI Aayog, the think tank of Indian Government.

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One-Third Of World Doesn't Have A Toilet. Here's What It Will Take To Change That

Katy Daigle of Associated Press published an article entitled “One-Third of World Doesn’t Have a Toilet. Here’s What It Will Take to Change That”. The article delves deeper into the challenge of open defecation faci...

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Ensuring quality of drinking water

Researchers at the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC, our partner organization, have written an article published in The Financial Express. The article mentions our recent roundtable discussions held in Bangl...

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UN Country Team Retreat

On 18 June 2015, Dr. Brad Wong, Senior Research Manager of Copenhagen Consensus (pictured right) gave a presentation at the UN Country Team Retreat in Bangladesh. The seminar, convened by Robert Watkins, Resident Co...

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