The Copenhagen Consensus- Making sense

Most mothers with families at home have to make decisions of priority every day. Without an infinite supply of money and with competing needs they have to make the tough decisions. Who gets what and how much do they get? It seems to me that the Copenhagen Accord has simply taken that home spun, workable but very tough approach to real life problems that the world's family is facing. If we can only tackle some of the problems- shouldn't we tackle the ones where we can make a real difference?
Here are their recommendations: How to spend $75 billion over four years to do major good in the world.

When the budgetary constraints of the Copenhagen Consensus framework are applied to the expert panel’s prioritized list, money can be allocated to thirteen of the solutions. The yearly budget is $18.75 billion (4 years x $18.75b = $75 b), and provides for a broad range of investments.



                                                                 Solution                                    Yearly cost in million USD



1 Micronutrient supplements for children (vitamin A and zinc)                                            60
2 The Doha development agenda                                                                                        0
3 Micronutrient fortification (iron and salt iodization)                                                        286
4 Expanded immunization coverage for children                                                            1,000
5 Biofortification                                                                                                              60
6 Deworming and other nutrition programs at school                                                          27
7 Lowering the price of schooling                                                                                   5,400
8 Increase and improve girls’ schooling                                                                          6,000
9 Community‐based nutrition promotion                                                                           798
10 Provide support for women’s reproductive role                                                         4,000
11 Heart attack acute management                                                                                    200
12 Malaria prevention and treatment                                                                                  500
13 Tuberculosis case finding and treatment                                                                       419
                                                                                                                        Total 18,750



Note: All costs are based on the Challenge Paper authors’ estimates. In the case of Solution 13