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Watching the news, you get the sense that climate change is making the planet unlivable. We are bombarded with images of floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. We see deadly events nearby but also far-flung disasters when the pictures are scary enough.

In this fifth instalment of The Do-able Dozen: Development projects for 2030 and beyond, Bjorn Lomborg and his Copenhagen Consensus think-tank look at the big potential returns to reducing corruption — and a way to do it.

Haiti is behind the rest of the world in the digital revolution. Internet coverage remains limited and expensive. Just four percent of households have access, and fewer than 1% of Haitians have mobile Internet. Some government processes that are digitized elsewhere are still done here in the old-fashioned way. This reduces opportunities for Haitians and slows down economic growth. Haiti could be richer with faster Internet and more digitization.

The research project Haiti Priorise is releasing two research papers that examine different ways to get more from the digital revolution.