![]() Because our hopes and efforts for building a better future are inextricably linked to our perception of the past it is important to understand and communicate the global development up to now. ![]() I am working on this because I don’t want this cynical view dominate our understanding of the world we live. ![]() It is easy to be cynical about the world and to maintain that nothing is ever getting better. Other than that I am a researcher – mostly focussing on inequality and poverty – at the University of Oxford. ![]() On ‘Our World in Data’ we don't report the 'breaking news' and instead zoom out to show the slow trends that dramatically change our world. While much of the news is focussing on what happened yesterday or even what is currently “breaking news”, I think that many of the very important changes, which fundamentally reshaped the world that we are living in, happen very slowly and persistently over the course of decades or centuries. Our World in Data now includes data and research on global health, violence, poverty, inequality, economic growth, environmental changes, food and agriculture, energy, technological change, education and more specific topics. Now I am working with a great team and we want to cover global development as broadly as we can to show how our world is changing. I visualize global development data on, a free online publication on how living conditions around the world are changing. ![]()
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