Top 10 Global Problems

At Copenhagen Consensus, economists devise a Top 10 list of most pressing global problems.

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May 30, 2004, 7:00 AM PDT

"An esteemed jury of eight top economists, including three Nobel Prize laureates from the US, are to ignore politics and emotion and instead focus on how to get the biggest bang for the world-aid buck... By the time the weeklong Copenhagen Consensus wraps up Saturday, the panelists are expected to release a list ranking the problems in order of which yields the highest benefit for the cost."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: How do you rank world misery?

Monday, October 24, 2005 in The Christian Science Monitor

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