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Ian Talley of the Wall Street Journal reports on the findings from our research on Science and Technology targets for the post-2015 development agenda. The idea is for a regional agreement—such as across the Americas—that allows free international movement for a certain number of skilled workers...

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What is the biggest source of violence in our world? Surprisingly, it is not civil war as the news would have most of us believe but domestic abuse. In this op-ed by Bjorn Lomborg discusses this surprising finding as well as the results from our set of papers focused on conflict and violence for...

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Time.com has published an op-ed article by Bjorn Lomborg in which he discuesses the role of Science and Technology in the post-2015 development agenda. In the article Lomborg highlights the key findings from set of research papers written for the Post-2015 Consensus. Professor Keith E. Maskus from...

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The East African, a weekly newspaper published in Kenya has started publishing an on-going series of op-ed articles written by Bjorn Lomborg. Each op-ed focuses on the key findings of our research papers with a detailed focus on how the targets relate to Africa. You can now read the op-ed...

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Anke Hoeffler, Research Officer at Oxford and co-author of our assessment paper on conflict and violence targets for the post-2015 development agenda was interviewed last week by CNN Live. Click here to watch the full interview.

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Major news sources around the world including: Times of India , Japan Times , Chicago Tribune , Al Jazeera , La Razon (Spain), O Globo (Brazil), Daily Mail (UK), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Index (Croatia), Heti Világgazdaság (Hungary), The Star (Malaysia) EuroNews (Europe) and ET Today (China)...

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The Guardian has published an article reporting on the findings from Anke Hoeffler and James Fearon’s research paper focused on conflict and violence targets for the post-2015 development agenda, commissioned by Copenhagen Consensus Center. The article highlights the findings of the paper related...

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Reuters has just published a new article entitled “Violence at home costs $8 trillion a year, worse than war – study.” The article gives a great overview of the findings from our most recent set of research papers which analyze conflict and violence targets in the post-2015...

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The Wall Street Journal has published a new article entitled “Developing Countries Could Reap Trillions by Squashing Financial Secrecy, Paper Says.” The article details the findings from Alex Cobham’s assessment paper in regard to Illicit Financial Flow targets for the Post-2015 development agenda...

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Upon the release of our latest research on Illicit Financial Flows, news outlets in Africa have become interested, as the research points out that curbing Illicit Financial Flows has a particular importance in Africa. The Daily Graphic a main news source for Ghana has recently published an op-ed...

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