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Munk Dialogue with Bjorn Lomborg: how to actually meet Sustainable Development Goals

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What Are You Saying to People in the Developing South?

There's a perception here in the developed west that the developing south is largely aligned with us on what our priorities are for helping them. But I think there's an other way in which we're very much misrepresenting them. Most people in the developing world want to get out of poverty. And they want their nations to rise. We need to also recognize that Malawi have some really, really basic issues like, for instance, with education. They're now actually rolling out the thing I was just talking about with the iPads across their entire, entire primary school. This is what economics can tell you for very little money. You can fix a really huge important problem if you take it seriously.

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