The Copenhagen Consensus, based in Denmark, is a panel of neoliberal economists who have sought to prioritise efforts to address the major issues facing the world, based on cost/benefit analyses. Through a process of discussion and debate, the organisation has established a list of ten priority areas for attention: control of HIV/AIDS, provision of micronutrients, trade liberalisation and malaria control are ranked as the highest priorities, yielding high returns for expenditures, while strategies to reduce climate change are ranked as low priority, as they are judged to yield little financial benefit for considerable expenditures.
The website provides downloads of the organisation’s ‘Challenge Papers’, in which experts outline the costs and benefits of measures to address the priority areas. The site also provides information about the organisation and its members, an outline of the rationale behind the list of priorities, access to a regular newsletter, and information about the organisation’s youth forum.