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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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AFP has published a report about the Center's latest paper on broadband infrastructure which has been syndicated globally including to Russia , Indonesia , South Africa , UK , USA , Australia , Thailand , Malaysia and Switzerland . The article highlights how increasing broadband access in the...

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The Wall Street Journal has published an article reporting on the findings from our research for infrastructure targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Expanding broadband access through wireless networks would be cheaper than building fixed wireline networks, however the benefits would be...

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We would be wise to target neonatal deaths and cervical cancer. Time.com has published Bjorn Lomborg’s new op-ed discussing the results from two health perspective papers written for the Post-2015 Consensus. The first paper is written by Günther Fink, from the Harvard School of Public Health and is...

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The Sydney Morning Herald has published an article which interviews Bjorn Lomborg and reports on the work of the Post-2015 Consensus to insert a cost-benefit perspective into post-2015 development agenda in order to ensure only smart targets are selected by the UN. "Not all targets are equally...

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