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The Do-Able Dozen: For the majority of people in developing countries, secure property rights are a rare luxury. That could be changed

Vaccination is one of the true wonders of humanity, having saved more lives than any other medical invention and providing population-level control of diseases that once ran rampant. Yet, we often fail to appreciate how fundamentally they have changed human life for the better.

Over the past two decades, the media has made some alarming predictions about the imminent end of the world due to global warming. But is this the priority that global efforts should be focussed on fixing? Does it have real world benefits, or are there better ways to improve human lives?

The Do-able Dozen: Addressing chronic disease risks in poor countries would make a huge difference to our world

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. 

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Bjørn Lomborg go through each of the “doable dozen,” a series of issues that cost relatively little to solve, and yet doing so would yield exponential returns for developing countries and their impoverished citizens.

The Do-able Dozen: The deaths of thousands of women and infants annually could be avoided for a surprisingly small cost

The global discussion about climate change has become quite hysterical. Some 60 percent of people living in the rich world think it is likely to bring an end to humanity. This is not only untrue; it is also harmful, because fear makes people embrace bad policies and ignore many other urgent challenges facing the world.

The Do-Able Dozen: A dramatic reduction in tuberculosis is not only possible but would be one of the most effective priorities leading up to 2030

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.