RFK made a massive mistake by ending global vaccine funding

In Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley asks how rich countries can best help poor ones and identifies five goals with great bang for the buck based on the output from Post-2015 Consensus so far.

The global goals are a phenomenal idea. They’re what happened when the United Nations came together and said: “Here are the world’s biggest problems, and here is how we’re going to measure progress on them.” The 17 goals include promises to end extreme poverty and hunger, fix climate change and education, and reduce inequality and corruption.

Author and Copenhagen Consensus Center President Bjorn Lomborg has raised concerns about tuberculosis and its effect on lower-class people. “It’s actually the biggest infectious disease killer,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “Most people in the rich world haven’t heard about it – because we’ve fixed this for rich people. “We need to fix this for poor people as well.”