Posted by Bjørn Lomborg. Monday 4 June 2012 09.00 BST Targeted financial assistance offers a middle path between the arguments for and against higher development spending. Despite tough recession budgets, the UK has decided to let development spending increase. The international development secretary Andrew Mitchell described spending on aid as "not only from the British people but for the British people", contributing to "a strong, more prosperous and safer world". USAid is reducing or cutting programmes because of budget shortfalls. Australia's Labour government is...

Newsweek Bjorn Lomborg 2012-05-28 A message from Bjørn Lomborg to organizers of the Rio+20 environmental summit: poverty pollutes. The upcoming United Nations green summit in Rio de Janeiro is in trouble—and with good reason. The planners of the mammoth event have been unable to agree on just what to say in the outcome document, ironically called “The Future We Want.” This week, dignitaries are meeting in New York City for a final attempt to find common ground. It won’t be easy. Over the past four decades, the U.N.’s concern for “green” issues has...

The Indian Times India Times, 14 May, 2012. Leading economists have ranked how to best and most cost-effectively invest to solve many of the world's seemingly insurmountable problems, a Danish think-tank said Monday, calling for a shift in global priorities. "It may not sound sexy, but solving the problems of diarrhoea, worms and malnutrition will do good for more of the world's poor than other more grandiose interventions," Bjoern Lomborg, who heads the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, said in a statement. His think-tank on Monday presented the results of its third global...

2012-05-23 75 Milliarden Dollar reichen, um große Menschheitsprobleme wie Unterernährung und Malaria bei Kindern zu beheben. Wenn alles so einfach ist, warum tun wir es nicht?

2012-05-23 Si tuviera 75.000 millones de dólares para gastar en los próximos cuatro años y su objetivo fuera mejorar el bienestar de la humanidad, en especial, el mundo en desarrollo, ¿cómo le sacaría el máximo provecho a ese dinero? Esa pregunta la hice ante un pánel compuesto por cinco de los mejores economistas, incluidos cuatro galardonados con el Premio Nobel, durante el proyecto del Consenso de Copenhague del 2012. Se escogió a los miembros del pánel de acuerdo con sus conocimientos especializados en la definición de prioridades y por su habilidad para aplicar los principios...

May 16, 2012By Bjorn Lomborg Project Syndicate COPENHAGEN – If you had $75 billion to spend over the next four years and your goal was to advance human welfare, especially in the developing world, how could you get the most value for your money? That is the question that I posed to a panel of five top economists, including four Nobel laureates, in the Copenhagen Consensus 2012 project. The panel members were chosen for their expertise in prioritization and their ability to use economic principles to compare policy choices.

2012-05-20 Ако имате 75 милијарди долари да ги потрошите во текот на следните четири години, и вашата цел е да се унапредат благосостојбата на луѓето, особено во земјите во развој, како може најдобро да ги искористите своите пари? Тоа е прашањето што го поставив пред група од пет водечки економисти, вклучувајќи и четири добитници на Нобелова награда, на проектот Копенхаген Консензус 2012. Учесниците на панел-дискусијата беа избрани поради нивната стручност во утврдување на приоритетите и нивната способност да ги користат економските принципи за да се споредат политичките избори. (...)

How Better Nutrition for Children Helps Solve Two of the World’s Biggest Problems A group of Nobel laureates analyze the cost-effectiveness of solutions to the world's biggest problems By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Monday, May 14, 2012, at 1:53 PM ET Over the past two weeks, I have challenged Slate readers to decide what priority to give competing ways to help the planet. We looked at 10 topics, from biodiversity to water and sanitation. In total, there were nearly 40 investment proposals, each with a cost and its own set of benefits.

The goal of Copenhagen Consensus 2012 was to set priorities among a series of proposals for confronting ten great global challenges. A panel of economic experts, comprising some of the world’s most distinguished economists, was invited to consider these issues. The ten challenge papers, commissioned from acknowledged authorities in each area of policy, included nearly 40 proposals for the panel’s consideration. During the conference the panel examined these proposals in detail. Each Challenge Paper was discussed at length with its principal author, and the experts met in private...

To Educate Children, We Have To Teach Their Parents We can improve education in poor countries by showing parents the importance of schooling. By Bjørn Lomborg Posted Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 2:06 PM ET Over the past 50 years, remarkable progress has been made ensuring that children receive basic education. More than 60 percent of adults in low-income countries can read and write, whereas in 1962, just one-third were literate. Today, nearly nine in 10 children around the world complete primary school. Read it online Art BL 2012-05-10 Slate Education.pdf