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...global foreign aid budgets. Led by Bjorn Lomborg - an idiosyncratic author best known for his skeptical views on global warming - the organization last month gathered eight major economists, including five Nobel Prize winners, to come up with an answer. The results are surprising. According to the numbers, the biggest problem facing the world isn't global warming or terrorism. It's malnutrition in the developing world, and it can be sharply reduced for as little as $60 million a year, by supplying basic micronutrients for 112 million kids who lack essential vitamins. According to the Copenhagen Consensus's figures, that...
...work, the Copenhagen Consensus poses a useful question: what if instead of trying to tackle the world's myriad problems in a piecemeal fashion, we focused our efforts tightly on where we could get the most value for our dollar? It's a very economist - and unglamorous - way of looking at the world. So one of the group's top global priorities is salt iodization for the poorest regions of South Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. (An estimated two billion people in the world suffer from iodine deficiency, which can lead to goiter and which can be prevented with iodized...
...obedient child who grew up to be a respectful young man, one who loved his family and would do anything for their happiness. Hasna relates anecdotes about Thamer's precociousness in school, his skill at drawing, his talent for fixing household electronics."When anybody in the neighborhood had a problem with their fridge, or their TV, they always came to my brother," she says. "He was so happy when he was mending things...
...particularly good moment to be a poor foreigner abroad anywhere: witness last month's violent xenophobic riots in South Africa. "When people are troubled by rising food prices, there are two easy scapegoats: foreigners and the government," Guterres says. "Xenophobia is a very worrying problem, and it's widespread: we've seen refugees murdered in Ukraine, Russia and Western Europe...
Guterres has no problem with border controls: "Countries ought to have border policies that assure their security and defend migration policy." But he says those arrangements should allow legitimate asylum-seekers to make their claims before they're turned back automatically. "Border management doesn't solve the migration problem," he says in response to a question about U.S. border fence project. "The example is Israel: there are now 7,000 asylum-seekers interned there, who got through the border with Egypt, where it's not exactly easy. You close the door, they come through the window; close the window...