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Feeding the hungry
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2647369

May 6th 2004
From The Economist print edition


In the fourth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus
project*, we look at hunger and malnutrition

TELEVISED images of starving children with distended bellies have
brought the problem of global hunger home to people in rich countries.
Sadly, however, the problem is far deeper than an immediate lack of
food, as a new paper for the Copenhagen Consensus project points out.
Jere Behrman of the University of Pennsylvania, Harold Alderman of the
World Bank and John Hoddinott of the International Food Policy
Research Institute have examined the extent of hunger and malnutrition
and four concrete proposals to ameliorate it.

My understanding is that the problem is not the lack of food. We have far
more than we need. The problem is distribution.

Feeding the hungry
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2647369

May 6th 2004
From The Economist print edition


In the fourth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus
project*, we look at hunger and malnutrition

TELEVISED images of starving children with distended bellies have
brought the problem of global hunger home to people in rich countries.
Sadly, however, the problem is far deeper than an immediate lack of
food, as a new paper for the Copenhagen Consensus project points out.
Jere Behrman of the University of Pennsylvania, Harold Alderman of the
World Bank and John Hoddinott of the International Food Policy
Research Institute have examined the extent of hunger and malnutrition
and four concrete proposals to ameliorate it.

Copenhagen Consensus project
http://news.google.com/news?q=%20%22Copenhagen%20Consensus%20project%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gn

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Copenhagen+Consensus+project%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=nw&sa=N

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Copenhagen%20Consensus%20project&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en

Migration and development
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2608019

May 6th 2004
From Economist.com

Easing the movement of people across borders is a political challenge
more than an economic one

IN AN ideal world, the migration of workers from poor countries to
rich countries would be a principal channel of material
progress-something that governments everywhere would seek to exploit
and encourage. The economic logic is clear, provided one regards the
welfare of each individual, regardless of nationality, as being of
equal importance. The crux of the matter is that, if people are free
to move or stay put, they will move only if doing so is to their
advantage. Unfortunately, migration arouses great political
controversy, especially (but not exclusively) in the rich countries
that are the biggest net recipients of migrants. Migration undoubtedly
presents a marvellous opportunity for advancing human welfare, but
this clash of economics and politics makes weighing its costs and
benefits very difficult: effects that look like benefits from a
liberal economic point of view become costs when viewed with politics
in mind.

Degrees of difference
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2628764

Apr 29th 2004
From The Economist print edition

In the third of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus
project*, we look at climate change

GLOBAL warming looms, in many people's minds, as one of the biggest
threats facing the planet. Over the past 20 years researchers have
gathered evidence that the burning of fossil fuels is causing
temperatures to rise. However, the exact pace of global warming, as
well as the size of mankind's contribution to the warming trend,
remain uncertain. Aside from these issues is the question of precisely
how greenhouse-gas emissions should be abated, assuming that they need
to be reduced at all. In a new paper for the Copenhagen Consensus
project, William Cline of the Centre for Global Development and the
Institute for International Economics examines these topics.

Fighting corruption
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2643440

Apr 29th 2004
From Economist.com


Corruption enriches the venal, but hurts everyone else. Can it be
curbed?

OUT of every dollar Uganda allocated to education in 1995, just 20
cents reached the country's schools. The rest was lost to local
patronage politics. In Zhanjiang, one of China's coastal cities, a
smuggling ring wrested control of the city's customs house and port
authorities. About 100 officials, including the vice-mayor, were
implicated in the ring, which smuggled goods worth more than $7
billion past China's borders in the 1990s. In Russia, the infamous
loans-for-shares scandal in 1995 allowed the state's biggest firms to
fall into the lap of some of the government's biggest bankrollers.
Yukos, an oil company worth as much as $40 billion last year, was
forfeited to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch, for little more than
$300m.

The learning deficit
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2610574

Apr 22nd 2004
From Economist.com

Lack of education holds much of the world back. Would more money help?

PEOPLE in rich countries often have little sense of how poor the
quality of education is in many developing countries. Where schools
exist, there may be no teachers; and where teachers are employed,
often they might as well not be, either because they fail to turn up
or because, even if they do appear, they do not know how to teach.
Schools may be shacks, lacking basic equipment such as desks or
chairs, with few if any teaching materials such as books, paper and
pencils. Up to now, much stress has been laid on raising the
proportion of children who enrol in schools (and, to a lesser extent,
on ensuring that they keep going once they have enrolled). But what is
the point of "universal enrolment" if schools and teachers are unable
to provide a decent education?

The price of peace
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2610959

Apr 22nd 2004
From The Economist print edition


In the second of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus
project*, we look at armed conflicts

IN MANY poor parts of the world, civil wars remain depressingly
common. In a new paper for the Copenhagen Consensus project, Paul
Collier and Anke Hoeffler of the Centre for the Study of African
Economies at Oxford University examine five ways of reducing the
dreadful costs of such wars. The policies they consider aim variously
to prevent the outbreak of civil wars, limit their duration, or halt
their recurrence.

Curbing disease
http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2595964

Apr 15th 2004
From Economist.com


Across the developing world, disease causes a vast toll of avoidable
suffering

IN RECENT years, researchers have developed methods to confront a
range of diseases-illnesses, in many cases, that put an especially
heavy burden on the world's poor. Across much of the planet, but
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the costs of diseases such as
malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are enormous. So it would seem that
the opportunities to do good by spending money wisely on treatment and
prevention are very promising. A Copenhagen Consensus* "challenge
paper" by Anne Mills and Sam Shillcutt of the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine reviews the literature and tries to weigh the
costs and benefits of different kinds of intervention.