I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.