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 …