The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Our mission is to accelerate the i...

The world’s greatest environmental threat disproportionately harms women and children, particularly in the developing world: it is indoor air pollution. The World Health Organization estimates that indoor pollution ...

Nobel Laureate economists Finn Kydland and Thomas Schelling, together with University of Chicago professor Nancy Stokey, have prioritised the 19 best value-for-money targets for the world to focus on over the next 1...

Bjorn’s April contribution to Project Syndicate discusses health targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Specifically, the results from our research on smart targets to tackle infectious diseases.

Over the past 18 months, the Post-2015 Consensus brought together renowned experts from the United Nations (UN), non-governmental (NGO) and private sectors with 60 teams of economists to produce 100+ research papers...

Do you know what black carbon is? It is killing millions of Indian women each year as reported in an article by the Associated Press.  The article cites the findings from Post-2015 Consensus research on smart s...

The Economist has published an interesting article detailing the problem with an exhaustive list of proposed sustainable development goals. The SDGs are supposed to set out how to improve the lives of the poor in em...

The Economist has published a new article which reports on the expert panel’s recommendations for the post-2015 development agenda. Those conclusions contain a warning for the proposed Sustainable Development Goals ...