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We should not fail our SDG promises

The Jakarta Post

In the year 2000, something remarkable happened. The world came together and committed to a short list of ambitious targets that became known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The objectives, which include...

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Prioritising our most crucial goals

Bangkok Post

Despite great progress over the past decades, more than 800 million people still go without enough food. Careful economic research helps identify ingenious and effective solutions. Bjorn Lomborg and Jordan Peterson ...

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A World of Difference

The Australian

If we want to save our planet, we'd better start with smart solutions for global poverty and poor education. Bjorn Lomborg writes together with Jordan Petersson in the Australian introducing the Halftime for the SDG...

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Leaders try to fix every problem but end up getting nothing done

The Telegraph

It is therefore long past time to identify and prioritise our most crucial goals. The think tank Copenhagen Consensus, together with several Nobel laureates and more than a hundred leading economists, has done exact...

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Minister endorses the Malawi Priorities book

At an event in Lilongwe hosted by the National Planning Commission the Malawi Priorities book containing summaries and recommendations from the cost-benefit research conducted for the project was launched. Minister ...

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A priority order for our SDGs can prove effective and win followers

It is prudent for a world facing too many demands with too few resources to focus on the most effective public policies first.   The world will be able to achieve its SDG 2030 promises only by 2078. While ...

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Meeting in Addis Ababa with the Minister of State

Meeting in Addis Ababa with the Minister of State at the Ministry of Planning and Development, Hon. Tirumar Abate Ayalew. Ralph Nordjo and Saleema Razvi of the Copenhagen Consensus Center discussed the possibilties ...

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Signing ceremony with the Government of Tonga

Memorandum of Understanding for assisting the government with cost-benefit assessment with the aim of identifying interventions and policies most likely to deliver high social return for the Kingdom of Tonga. Signat...

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Finding the best policies for Nigeria

Editorial published in The Punch, one of Nigeria's biggest newspapers. In every country, the main role of the government and parliament is to prioritise policy options and investments. Hopefully, these policies will...

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Malawi far from achieving Abuja Declaration on health financing

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Malawi is among countries racing against time to achive the Abuja Declaration, which rallies States and governmants to commit 15 percent of their national budgets towards health financing. Read the full article her...

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