Article: What is the world's worst calamity? Academics crack hard nuts.(Global Cries, Global Solutions)(Book Review)

Article: UN Diplomats Rank Diseases, Water, Hunger and Education at Top of ...
PR Newswire;  October 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... education. This was the outcome of the Copenhagen Consensus Conference in New York this weekend ... and Zimbabwe was organized by the Copenhagen Consensus Center to focus the UN ambassadors ... and individual rankings. "The Copenhagen Consensus process provides a framework for ...

Article: Assessing global threats.(Copenhagen Consensus ...
Canada and the World Backgrounder;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The idea behind the Copenhagen Consensus Project was to set a list ... decisions. The role of the Copenhagen Consensus was to rank its choices ... than economists? So, the Copenhagen Consensus Project gathered a panel ...

Article: UN Ambassadors to Analyze, Prioritize Major World Problems Using ...
PR Newswire;  June 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... under the co-sponsorship of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and Georgetown University ... international gathering was modeled after Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a groundbreaking gathering ... and politicians. The overriding Copenhagen Consensus goal is to render decision-making ...

Article: The stuff of life; Economics focus.(Understanding the global ...
The Economist (US);  May 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... fifth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project*, we look at water and ... was commissioned as part of the Copenhagen Consensus project, which this column has ... and is the approach adopted by the Copenhagen Consensus paper on communicable diseases ...

Article: How do you rank world misery? At Copenhagen ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  May 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... bang for the world-aid buck. By the time the weeklong Copenhagen Consensus wraps up Saturday, the panelists are expected to release ... exchange of ideas, but critics have charged that the Copenhagen Consensus is a simplistic approach to divining solutions for complex ...

Article: Feeding the hungry; Economics focus.(In the fourth of a series of ...
The Economist (US);  May 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ...In the fourth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project*, we look at hunger and malnutrition ... immediate lack of food, as a new paper for the Copenhagen Consensus project points out. Jere Behrman of the University ...

Article: Putting the world to rights - Copenhagen ...
The Economist (US);  June 5, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... helping the developing countries? Some answers IN RECENT weeks The Economist has been following and supporting the Copenhagen Consensus project--an unusual, ambitious and, some have argued, misguided attempt to set priorities among a range ...