Childbirth needn’t be this deadly

2012-07-16 Die Idee, "grüne" Indikatoren ins BIP mit einzubeziehen, ist gefährlich. Auch wenn die grüne Buchführung sicher eine Rolle spielen kann, dürfen wir nicht zulassen, dass sie die Entwicklung blockiert.  

Every two minutes, a woman dies of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Most of these deaths are preventable — and the world has been working on a solution for decades. The problem is the funds dedicated to solving the problem never go far enough.

In this eighth instalment of The Do-able Dozen: Development projects for 2030 and beyond, Bjorn Lomborg explains how freer world trade was key to the historic reduction in world poverty over the past four decades and could bring big future payoffs, too.