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Malaria prevention

Daily Graphic

Ensuring people sleep under an insecticide-treated bednet is one of the most effective way to prevent malaria. Mosquitoes are blocked by the netting and killed by the insecticide.

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How to tackle the lingering malaria problem?

Dhaka Tribune

Renowned author Dr Bjorn Lomborg discusses solutions to the mosquito-borne disease that has long been plaguing Africa in the latest instalment of a series exclusive to Dhaka Tribune.

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Securing land ownership will hasten development

New Times

We urgently need to focus on investing in the very best solutions. Improving urban tenure security, which at low costs would make hundreds of millions of people better off, is one such investment. 

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Meeting with Prof. Bartholomew Armah and his team at UNECA

Ralph and Prof Armah and team

In February Ralph Nordjo presented the Halftime research project for economists at UNECA. Specifically, was discussed how cost-benefit analysis can be an effective tool to help governments prioritize between differe...

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Regular el consumo de tabaco, alcohol y sal aporta beneficios (Regulating the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and salt brings benefits)

El Heraldo

Poor countries continue to fight against diseases such as tuberculosis, but we must also focus on diseases linked to tobacco, alcohol and salt.

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Securing property ownership to grow better lives for billions

National Post

For the majority of people in developing countries, secure property rights are a rare luxury. That could be changed.

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Securing land ownership to drive development

Daily Graphic

Most people in the developed world don’t have to worry about losing the right to live where they do. If you have a deed or a rental contract, it is unlikely that someone is going to turn up tomorrow with their own p...

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Securing land ownership to drive development

Dhaka Tribune

Improving urban tenure security would make hundrends of millions of people better off. Renowned author Dr Bjorn Lomborg discusses the intricacies of land rights in the latest instalment of a series exclusive to Dhak...

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कुपोषण से कैसे मिले छुटकारा (How to get rid of malnutrition)

Navrabhat Times

The deaths of thousands of women and infants annually could be avoided for a surprisingly small cost. Multi-micronutrient supplements could prevent about seven per cent of almost 700,000 still-births, 21 per cent of...

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Battling Chronic Killers of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Salt

Addis Fortune

Over the course of the 20th Century, tobacco smoking killed around 100 million people, most of whom lived in today’s rich countries. However, that picture is changing, and the health burdens of smoking are now movin...

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