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World Bank: Extreme poverty ‘to fall below 10%’

Oct 5, 2015

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BBC: World Bank: Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%' The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty,…

Don’t Panic – How to End Poverty in 15 Years (Hans Rosling)

Sep 24, 2015

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in Capitalism and Markets, Demography, Economic Development, Great Divergence, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

YouTube: Don't Panic – How to End Poverty in 15 Years (This World documentary) "The legendary statistical showman Professor Hans Rosling returns with a feast of facts and figures as he examines the extraordinary target the world commits to this week – to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide. In the week the United Nations presents its…

Trends in Extreme Poverty (Spoiler: The Poor Are Not Getting Poorer)

Jun 24, 2015

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in Africa, Capitalism and Markets, China, Economic Development, Great Divergence, India, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.25 a day) is shrinking. The global poor are not getting poorer. The world population grew from 4.5 billion people in 1981 to 6.9 billion in 2010 – a 60% increase. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty in developing nations dropped from over 50%…

A Richer World… but for whom?

Jan 23, 2015

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in Great Divergence, Human Progress, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income

BBC: A Richer World… but for whom? We are getting richer. Not every human being on the planet and not every country. But the average person has an economic standard of living that's far better than it used to be. One way of measuring it is to look at the amount of goods and services…

Why I Won’t Shut Up About Positive Changes in The World

Jan 8, 2015

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in Great Divergence, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Wealth and Income

Most people are exceptionally illiterate about the trajectory of demographic and economic changes in the world, believing the world is decaying. That leads many to disengage in hopelessness. Globalization combined with investment in human capital and infrastructure has put extreme poverty in rapid retreat. The global poor are not getting poorer. The world is getting…

The World is Not Falling Apart

Dec 23, 2014

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in Great Divergence, Human Progress, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Slate: The World is Not Falling Apart Never mind the headlines. We've never lived in such peaceful times. I've repeatedly revisited the theme in my blogging that the world is improving in many ways. That is routinely met with skepticism, even outrage. How can I be so insensitive as to say the world is getting…

23 Charts That Show Why This Is The Best Moment In History To Be Born

Sep 25, 2014

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in Demography, Great Divergence, Human Progress, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Business Insider: 23 Charts That Show Why This Is The Best Moment In History To Be Born Here are a few of my favorites. Click through to see the rest. The big question is not how to stop the world from spiraling into chaos. The big question is how we get an improving world to…

How not to be ignorant about the world – Hans and Ola Rosling

Sep 15, 2014

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in Great Divergence, Human Progress, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Hans Rosling, and his son Ola, nail it again. Excellent video. I have more to say about this in a coming post.

Reasons to Be Cheerful

Aug 19, 2014

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in Crime, Demography, Education, Environment, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Matt Ridley: Reasons to Be Cheerful We are prone to fixate on problems and threats. The news concentrates on Ebola, the Middle East and Ukraine violence, and the discord in Ferguson, Missouri. But it is important to keep present challenges (and they are more decidedly real) in context. Matt Ridley offers twelve reasons to be…

The Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity

Jun 26, 2014

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in Economic Development, Economics, Great Divergence, History, Human Progress, Trends: Economic, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

From MRUniversity, Everday Economics: "We are pleased to announce a brand new course at MRUniversity, Everyday Economics. The new course will cover some of the big ideas in economics but applied to everyday questions. The first section, premiering now and rolling out over the next several weeks, features Don Boudreaux on trade. Tyler will appear…

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