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World Service,27 Dec 2014,10 mins

Numbers of the Year: Part Two

More or Less

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How optimistic are people about the future? The BBC’s Evan Davis tells More or Less as the programme looks back at the most interesting and important numbers of 2014. Tim Harford also speaks to Dr Pippa Malmgren, who was a former economic adviser to President George W Bush, Times football journalist Bill Edgar and the winner of the first Africa fact-checking award, Edem Srem, to discuss goalkeepers and gold miners.

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