Morning Briefing

In the second part of a series of Slate articles highlighting issues being examined by the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Bjorn Lomborg, director of the center, examines the global burden of non-communicable diseases, which "receiv[e] the smallest amount of donor assistance of all health conditions, having lost ground since 1990 relative to infectious diseases," he writes. "In a research paper released today on chronic disease, Prabhat Jha and a team of researchers argue that chronic diseases already pose a substantial economic burden, and this burden will evolve into a staggering one over the next two decades," according to Lomborg.