Tag: Hans Rosling
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Our ancestors did not live in balance with nature. They died in balance with it.
One of the most important observations (among many) from the late Hans Roslings' Factfulness: When a population is not growing over a long period of time, and the population curve is flat, this must mean that each generation of new parents is the same size as the previous one. For thousands of years up to…
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Global Inequality is Decline
James Pethokoukis includes the following graph and commentary in his post Actually, global income inequality seems to be on the decline. As a follow-up to my blog post on the Pope Francis and his recent statement on economic inequality, here is what’s been happening on inequality globally. While inequality has increased within countries since 1970s…