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BBC Americas - UK based
Jyllandsposten - Denmark
Politiken - Denmark
reasononline - USA
The Times - UK
 
Prime Ministers opening speach

Read Danish PM, Anders Fogh Rasmussen's, opening speach at Copenhagen Consensus 2008

 

Copenhagen Consensus 2008

Outcome documents

Press Release (30th May 2008)

Results (30th May 2008)

The ranked lists of solutions


The world’s best investment: Vitamins for undernourished children,
according to top economists, including 5 Nobel Laureates

Over two years, more than 50 economists have worked to find the best solutions to ten of the world’s biggest challenges. During the last week of May, an expert panel of 8 top-economists, including 5 Nobel Laureates, sat down to assess the research.
 
The ranked list: A prioritized list highlighting the potential of 30 specific solutions to combat some of the biggest challenges facing the world. 
 
Combating malnutrition in the 140 million children who are undernourished reached the number one spot, after economist Sue Horton of Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada made her case to the expert panel.
 
Providing micronutrients for 80% of the 140 million children who lack essential vitamins in the form of vitamin A capsules and a course of zinc supplements would cost just $60 million per year, according to the analysis. More importantly, this action holds yearly benefits of more than $1 billion.
 
In effect, this means that each dollar spent on this program creates benefits (in the form of better health, fewer deaths, increased future earnings, etc.) worth more than 17 dollars.
 

Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Youth Forum
CC08 YF - the ranked list

 


The Copenhagen Consensus Center analyzes the world's greatest challenges and identifies cost efficient solutions to meeting these challenges. The Center works with multilateral organizations, governments and other entities concerned with mitigating the consequences of the challenges which the world is facing.
 
With the process of prioritization, the center aims to establish a framework in which solutions to problems are prioritized according to efficiency based upon economic and scientific analysis of distinct subjects. 
  
The Copenhagen Consensus Center is headed by Bjørn Lomborg.

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