If we grow global trade by a mere five per cent, the benefits to mankind will be $11 trillion. In this eighth instalment of The Do-able Dozen: Development projects for 2030 and beyond, Bjorn Lomborg explains ho...
Over the past century, trade had been increasing as a percentage of the entire global economy, but this peaked around the Global Financial Crisis, and is now declining.
This is true for Ghana as well, where the shar...
Stakeholder discussion in Mbabane on the cost-benefit assessment for Eswatini
Following the work on rapidly assessing Eswatini's National Development Strategy in collaboration with Dr. Thabo Sacolo and his team at the Eswatini Economic Policy Analysis and Research Centre (ESEPARC), ...
The National Planning Commission of Namibia invited Ralph Nordjo to discuss the possibility to collaborate on cost-benefit analyses within the Halftime project framework. The meeting with Mr. Sylvester Mbangu (Deput...
Huge benefits - Investing in pregnant women's nutrition
Of all our global promises for development that we are on track to fail by 2030 and there are many one of the most tragic and infuriating is our limited progress on ending global malnutrition.
Mortalidad materna y neonatal: una tragedia inaceptable que se puede evitar (Maternal and neonatal mortality: an unacceptable tragedy that can be avoided)
Every two minutes, nine newborn babies and one mother die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. In total this year 2.4 million newborn babies will die within the first month of their lives and 295,...
Investing more in pregnant mothers’ nutritional support turns out to be one of the most efficient ways to make progress on sustainable development. We owe it to the world to invest in such smart policies first.
