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A focused investment in maternal and newborn health could save more than a million lives annually
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Each year, Bangladesh spends more than Tk. 72,000 crore on government procurement. That includes paying for anything from Padma Bridge to pencils for government offices and everything in-between. Imagine if this process could be done just 1 percent more efficiently - that would save Tk. 720 crore. As it turns out, it can likely be improved by closer to 10 percent, saving billions of takas that could pay for other projects or services.
Subsequent to Bjorn Lomborg's article on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and New York Times' reporting last month, media around the world have interviewed Lomborg on the Copenhagen Consensus Center's
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The Do-able Dozen: The deaths of thousands of women and infants annually could be avoided for a surprisingly small cost