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“Here’s $2.5 trillion. You have 15 years to spend it. How do you distribute this money in a way that will achieve the most good for the world?” This is the question Bjorn Lomborg discusses on a recent freakonomics podcast. Freakonomics podcast –the podcast that explores the hidden side of...

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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 Have we met the millennium development goals? Which targets are closest? As Bjorn...

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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 Fraser University in Canada, estimated that each new target would cost $1.5 billion if...

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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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