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Cost of gathering data on new development goals could be crippling

The Guardian has published Bjorn’s Lomborg’s latest op-ed which dicusses the findings from the Copenhagen Center’s latest set of research papers focused on the UN ‘data revolution’. The article begs the questions Ha...

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World risks spending $250 billion just to monitor U.N. development goals

Reuters has published a new article which reports on the findings from our research on Data for Development targets for the post-2015 development agenda.  The report by Morten Jerven, a development expert at Simon F...

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Visas Best Bet to Strengthen Technology in Developing Countries, Paper Argues

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 Americ...

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The Economics of Violence

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...

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How to Make the World's Poor $500 Billion Richer

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...

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East African Begins Publishing Post-2015 Consensus News Series

The East African, a weekly newspaper published in Kenya has started publishing an on-going series of op-ed articles written by Bjorn Lomborg.

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CNN Live interviews Anke Hoeffler co-author of our conflict and violence assessment paper.

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 fu...

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Benefits and Costs of Conflict and Violence Garners Global Attention

Major news sources around the world including: Times of India, Japan Times, Chicago Tribune,

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Violence between individuals 'kills nine times more people' than wars

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 Cop...

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Violence at home costs $8 trillion a year, worse than war

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 ...

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