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Promises to Keep Crafting Better Development Goals

The November/December 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs features an 8 page article by Bjorn Lomborg. The article entitled “Promises to Keep Crafting Better Development Goals”, highlights the work of the Post-2015 Consen...

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Free trade will generate $500 trillion

Die Welt, one of Germany's major national newspapers released an article reporting on the findings from our research papers on trade targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  Bjorn Lomborg is interviewed t...

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WTO Doha deal would make world $11-trillion richer by 2030: Economists

AFP, one of the world's three largest international news agencies has published an article entitled “WTO Doha deal would make world $11-trillion richer by 2030: Economists” which reports on the findings from ou...

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Dirty Development Money

When we think about development priorities, we think of disease, nutrition and education, but actually illicit financial flows is a big player. In fact, 20 sub-Saharan Africa countries have lost more than 10% of the...

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Feeding people is smart: It's the best investment to do good in the world

Economic Times, India’s largest business newspaper has published an op-ed article by Bjorn Lomborg which addresses the world’s hunger problem.  While the world is on track to meet the millennium development goa...

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A Growing list of news sources has begun continual coverage of the Post-2015 Consensus

We're pleased to announce that 20 major newspapers around the world will be publishing articles discussing the findings of our reports from each of the 18 topic areas. The list includes news sources such as the Mail...

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Seven value-for-money ways to save the world

The Telegraph UK has published an op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg in which Bjorn gives a great over view of the UN's post-2015 development agenda and discusses the core findings from seven of our research areas including:

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More or Better Development Data? Yes, Please...

Morten Jerven author of our assessment paper for Data for Development has written a great article for the Huffington Post. In the article Jerven illustrates why improved data monitoring will be so important for the ...

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Clean cooking and better sources of energy can have a domino effect on health and education

Time.com has published an op-ed article by Bjorn Lomborg discussing the findings from our recent set of research papers focused on Energy.  The key message of the report: increasing access to modern energy is a...

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Freakonomics - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition

“Here’s $2.5 trillion. You have 15 years to spend it. How do you distribute this money in a way that will achieve the most good for the world?” This is the question Bjorn Lomborg discusses on a recent freakonomics p...

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