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Bangladesh Priorities

If you had BDT 250 billion to use for Bangladesh's future, how would you choose to spend it? That would alter the spending of roughly just ten percent of what the national government and international aid agencies c...

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Bjorn Lomborg meets with Bangladeshi PM

Dr. Lomborg met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh in December 2016 while both were attending the SDGs conference in Dhaka. The event, “Delivering Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh: Concepts, ...

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Prospect’s International Affairs Think Tank of the Year

The Copenhagen Consensus Center is the winner of Prospect Magazine’s 2016 Think Tank of the Year award in the “International Affairs” category for think tanks based in the US. The Center's work was commended by the ...

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Bangladesh Priorities Book Launch

Bangladesh publisher, Adorn Books, published a short book on the project entitled Bangladesh Priorities: Ranking the smartest solutions by their benefits and costs. The book is available in both English and Bangla a...

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Prothom Alo discusses Bangladesh Priorities project

One of Bangladesh's leading newspapers Prothom Alo has published a full page editorial on the work of the Bangladesh Priorities project as well their collaboration with the project to promote the smartest solutions ...

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The Domestic Violence Crisis

Anke Hoeffler, Research Officer, Department of Economics, University of Oxford joined the Domestic Violence Crisis: Mobilizing the Public and Private Sectors panel presented by The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan Public ...

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Congratulations to President Juan Manuel Santos for winning the Nobel Peace Prize!

I had the privilege of meeting the President of Colombia to discuss priorities for the implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, last year. We had an excellent discussion about how to make the world ...

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Debate on poverty eradication

Bjorn Lomborg responds to the debate on smart solutions to tackle poverty in Bangladesh.  The project 'Bangladesh Priorities' set out to have a conversation on what is best for Bangladesh. In that spirit, I wel...

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Laying the Ground Work

For Haiti Priorise Regional Youth Forums Despite counting for roughly two-thirds of the population, youth perspectives are often absent from discussions and decisions about policies for Haiti. Haïti Priorise, using ...

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Bangladesh Priorities Update: Continuing to work for smart solutions

Policy Seminar

Bangladesh Priorities produced 1,100+ pages of new, made-for-Bangladesh research, along with a menu of policy options based on cost-benefit analysis and rankings by an Eminent Panel. However, the real impact today i...

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