https://twitter.com/WorldBank/status/664161394955304961
Night-light maps shows huge need 4 #infrastructure investment in African #cities. Video: https://t.co/21z0sT1fXk pic.twitter.com/BJXzwAZPyE
— World Bank (@WorldBank) November 10, 2015
@HelenClarkUNDP @OxfamGB @GreenpeaceUSA support energy poverty in Africa
14 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, child poverty, energy poverty, extreme hunger, extreme poverty, global hunger, Greenpeace, Oxfam, The Great Escape
Breathing Beijing’s air
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
Breathing Beijing’s air: the equivalent of smoking nearly 40 cigarettes a day. http://t.co/7M3TxrgUPD—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 13, 2015
The Great Fact in 2 charts
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China, India, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Robert Lucas on income redistribution and economic growth
05 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: capitalism and freedom, industrial revolution, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Chinese birth and death rates and the Chinese population since 1950
04 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: China, economics of fertility, one child policy, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
#Africa is turning democratic
01 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: Africa, capitalism and freedom
Chinese and Hong Kong fertility since the one child policy was adopted
01 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, population economics Tags: China, economics of fertility, Hong Kong, one child policy, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge
@oxfamnz The Great Escape from starving Africa
29 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
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@oxfamgb @GreenpeaceUSA Cooking is now one of the biggest causes for outdoor air pollution
28 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: air pollution, energy poverty, indoor air pollution
A rising majority of university students around the world are women
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics Tags: College premium, compensating differentials, education premium, graduate premium, marriage and divorce, reversing gender gap
A rising majority of university students around the world are women (HT @cblatts) http://t.co/6loTmSgrk9—
William Easterly (@bill_easterly) June 15, 2015
Angus Deaton on slow growth as a force for distributional conflict
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, liberalism, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Angus Deaton, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The essence of anthropology
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles, personnel economics Tags: academic bias, anthropology, Noble Savage, technological diffusion, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
@zoesqwilliams has great timing on capitalism not doing enough on poverty @worstall
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, Leftover Left, life expectancies, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Twitter left
When Zoe Williams was born in 1973, 60% of humanity lived in extreme poverty. That has dropped to 1 in 10.
When my father was born, 7 in 10 people lived in absolute poverty.
Today, it's 1 in 10! https://t.co/1Caqku3AY1—
Tim Fernholz (@TimFernholz) October 21, 2015
Just the other day, the World Bank estimated that extreme poverty has dropped below 10% of the world’s population for the first time in human history but some are still grumbling.
What will it take to finish the “Last Mile” in ending extreme #poverty? brook.gs/1LiFT8E http://t.co/YxSZ36VCSW—
Brookings (@BrookingsInst) October 07, 2015
Zoe Williams is not grumbling about the failed states and predatory government responsible for the last pockets of extreme poverty, but about the inequality from economic progress under capitalism.
The extreme poor live in conflict & rural areas: wrld.bg/Nynge #endpoverty http://t.co/43HDDI11JR—
World Bank (@WorldBank) May 31, 2015
Zoe Williams honestly believes that extreme poverty could have been reduced faster if we had taken on the socialist road.
These 4 nations are 50% of mankind. That's 3.5 billion people who are living longer. buff.ly/1Kle6mU #health http://t.co/949oqisMsL—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 30, 2015
China and India escaped from extreme poverty by rejecting socialism.
Just released: new global poverty estimates from 1990-2015 using updated extreme poverty line http://t.co/LxD5q2n6Mg—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) October 04, 2015
China and India received next to no overseas development assistance in their Great Escape from extreme poverty.
Embrace the free market and overtake your socialist competitors. buff.ly/1PZ3yuN http://t.co/xfpF4vtqlv—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) October 05, 2015
There’s been some clear-cut natural experiments such as between Chile and Venezuela and Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and just about any other developing country in terms of capitalism as the only path to prosperity.
The official salaries of African presidents
22 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: Africa, bribery and corruption
What African Presidents Make (Officially) http://t.co/X3F0j5DYHG—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) July 23, 2015
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