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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.

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.

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. 

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...