The Great Surge, Steven Radelet, 2015
The proportion of countries living in extreme poverty has fallen from 42% in 1993 to juts 17% in 2011. The opening of China accounts for a large share of the change, but the fall also affects dozens of countries in every region of the world (sample of 109 developing countries with population greater than 1 million is considered)
People in developing countries have incomes today that are nearly double those of their parents 2 decades ago.
People born in developing countries live 1/3 longer than they did 20 years ago.
In 1980, only half of the girls enrolled and completed primary education. Today 4 out 5 are.
In 1983, 17 countries had democracies. By 2013 the number had tripled to 56.Violence decline sharply. Since 1980, incidence of civil war in developing countries has been cut by half. Battle deaths in war have…
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