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Developing Countries Could Reap Trillions

The Wall Street Journal has published a new article entitled “Developing Countries Could Reap Trillions by Squashing Financial Secrecy, Paper Says.” The article details the findings from Alex Cobham’s assessment pap...

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How to raise $770bn for African Development

Upon the release of our latest research on Illicit Financial Flows, news outlets in Africa have become interested, as the research points out that curbing Illicit Financial Flows has a particular importance in Afric...

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Assessment of Final OWG Report featured in Financial Times

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After one and a half years of deliberations, consultations, and negotiations, the UN’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals released its final outcome document. Building upon the analyses conduc...

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Sparking Global Attention for Smart Education Targets

The recent article written by Bjorn Lomborg, focused on the education targets for the Post-2015 development agenda, has begun to attain major global attention.

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Word Cloud of OWG's final document

After one and a half years of deliberations, consultations, and negotiations, the UN’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals released its final outcome document.  Above are the 150 most common wo...

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We now have the first set of papers on education: what is the smartest target?

The Post-2015 Consensus has just released our latest research series on Education targets for the Post-2015 agenda. George Psacharopoulos, formerly of the London School of Economics and the World Bank writes the mai...

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The Trouble with Universal Education

With 60 million children still out of school, the international community should not simply postpone the same universal-education target until 2030. Lomborg calls for an achievable, targeted, and cost-effective appr...

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The Economic Case for a Better World

El Mundo, Spain's newspaper of record has published a recent article by Bjorn Lomborg. In this article Bjorn discusses what is to come after the expiration of the millennium development goals and the future global i...

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Starting the Post-2015 conversation in Germany

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's newspaper of record has published an article written by Bjorn Lomborg. In this article Bjorn discusses why the work of the Post-2015 consensus is so important and why we nee...

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An African Focus on Education Findings

After the recent launch of our series on education targets in the Post-2015 agenda, African media have begun giving attention to the findings. The Daily Graphic a large news outlet in Ghana has been the first to pub...

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