Prioritizing The World
About this book
In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals set a few, highly effective targets for the world, e.g. halve the proportion of poor and hungry and reduce childhood mortality by two-thirds. The goals have been a huge success. Now, the UN and the world is to decide which new goals will take over in 2015.The UN s Open Working Group has proposed 169 targets. But we need to know which are most effective. Copenhagen Consensus has asked 30+ of the world s top economists to highlight phenomenal, good, fair and poor targets, weighing up the social, environmental and economic benefits and costs. The world will spend $2.5 trillion in development aid from 2015-2030, and these goals will influence a large part of that spending. Making just one target better can do hundreds of billions of dollars worth of good.Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think tank that investigates and publishes the best policies and investment opportunities based on data and cost-benefit analysis for governments and philanthropists to make the world a better place. Copenhagen Consensus Center works with 100+ of the world s top economists and 7 Nobel Laureates to prioritize solutions to the world's biggest problems, on the basis of data and cost-benefit analysis.For his work with Copenhagen Consensus, Bjorn Lomborg was named one of the world s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine, one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century by Esquire magazine, and one of the 50 people who could save the planet by the UK Guardian. He has repeatedly been named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy.