A question of priority: Hunger or Climate Change?
When it comes to value for money, the Coppenhagen Consensus has always been known for going against the consensus. Organised by Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial statistician author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It the panel of economists behind the Coppenhagen Consensus have long identified HIV has the major threat for mankind.
This year, the eight leading economists, including five Nobel laureates, have identified malnutrition as the world’s major priority for aid and development, and ranked climate change at the bottom of their list of priority. I tend to agree that when it comes to effective measures in “resources-limited settings” (read our world) as they say in the UN lingo, Bjorn and the Copenhagen Consensus have a very good point.
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An interesting development that should really make us re-assess our priorities. The China Post reports that in Cambodia the World Food Programme will stop providing free breakfast in school because of the soaring price of food. A corollary is that it will be difficult to convince parents that their kids should still attend school as this programme was a strong incentive for them.
Cambodian kids enjoy last free breakfast as U.N. food aid ends
By Ker Munthit, AP
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Students at a rural elementary school in Cambodia enjoyed their last free breakfasts in class after the United Nations World Food Program stopped supplying rice and other food because of soaring global prices.
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