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Bjorn Lomborg: Focus on global growth and fighting poverty, not climate politics

The world’s poorest deserve better than virtue signalling from afar

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This week in Washington more than 10,000 delegates, finance ministers and central bankers gather for the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings. Their stated goal: accelerate global development, drive economic growth and lift billions of people out of poverty.

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That mission remains vital. But too many development institutions have lost sight of what the world’s poorest people actually need. Flush with funding from taxpayers in wealthy nations, they increasingly prioritize elite western concerns — gender, social issues and climate change — over the basics........

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