One of humanity’s biggest achievements in the last century was making a huge increase in food production. From 1900 to 2000, there was a six-fold increase in crop harvests while the global population increased less ...

The SDGs do promise to do incredibly important things, like eradicating poverty and hunger, getting rid of disease, ending war and global warming. They also set targets for more peripheral issues like providing gree...

The international community must set clear priorities and not try to do everything at once. Bjorn Lomborg kicks off a 12-part weekly series in which he and his colleagues at the Copenhagen Consensus think tank set a...

Over that decade-and-a-half, governments, international institutions and private foundations poured in billions of dollars more than they had before, specifically to achieve the 15 targets. Bjorn Lomborg kicks ...

Ralph Nordjo discussed the Halftime cost-benefit research and how the methodology can help to achieve goals within Agenda 2063 more cost-effectively with Mr. Jacques Mukwende, Ag. Director of Partnership.

Between 2000 and 2015 the world made great progress on the Millennium Development Goals, which aimed to hit important targets in education, income growth, fighting disease and so on. In 2015, world leaders followed ...

Meetings were held with Mr. Abdelkreem Y. Ezaldin, Office of the Strategic Planning and Delivery (OSPD). Ralph Nordjo introduced the Halftime cost-benefit research project, and they discussed how the results can hel...

Ralph Nordjo travelled to Addis Ababa for informal meetings to introduce and present the Halftime cost-benefit research project for delegates at the annual African Union Summit.

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...