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Research topics | Copenhagen Consensus
An astonishing one-third of the world population, 2.5 billion people, lack access to basic sanitation, and over one billion people defecate out in the open. Water and sanitation issues still cause 6–7...
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Copenhagen Consensus
The Copenhagen Consensus was our first project. The basic idea was to improve prioritization of the numerous problems the world faces, by gathering some of the world's greatest economists to a meeting...
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Results | Copenhagen Consensus
The Copenhagen Consensus Center assembled an Expert Panel to consider the research presented here. The Expert Panel of five world-class economists – including three recipients of the Nobel Prize – met...
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Outcome | Copenhagen Consensus
The goal of Copenhagen Consensus was to set priorities among a series of proposals for confronting ten great global challenges. A panel of economic experts, comprising eight of the world’s most distin...
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Research | Copenhagen Consensus
The Copenhagen Consensus Expert Panel's deliberations were informed by ten new research papers commissioned for the project from top scholars from around the world. Each paper rigorously examined diff...
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Our story | Copenhagen Consensus
The Copenhagen Consensus was conceived to address a fundamental, but overlooked topic in international development: In a world with limited budgets and attention spans, we need to find effective ways ...