After Nigeria, 19 incumbent African leaders have been defeated at the polls. Ever. (ht @calestous) http://t.co/nRdeFYS122—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) April 02, 2015
19 incumbent African leaders have been defeated at the polls
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: Africa, capitalism and freedom, free elections, second turnover
The Great Escape – life expectancy is rising everywhere version
03 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Since 1990, my life expectancy has increased by three months for every year I have lived! Not bad odds. What more can capitalism do before people stop complaining.
live. via 26 charts and maps that show the world is getting much, much better – Vox.
North and South Korea compared
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
The relative importance of the climate crisis in the Third World
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, climate alarmism, global warming, The Great Escape
More evidence of mass kidnappings of activists
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism Tags: Africa, anticapitalist mentality, capitalism and freedom, do gooders, entrepreneurial alertness, foreign direct investment, Left-wing hypocrisy, ODA
Why aren’t overseas development activists dancing in the streets to celebrate this turnaround in the economic climate of Africa through capitalism and the freedom to invest. The only possible explanation is mass kidnappings.
3 billion and counting
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: killer green policies, malaria, The Great Escape
Why a country’s average height is a good way of measuring its development | The Guardian
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: economics of physiology, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea
I spotted this 20 years ago when I first travelled in Asia and then lived Japan for two years. In Japan in 1995, each generation of Japanese was head and shoulders taller than the last. In the Philippines, I could look over the crowd – it was great to be tall.
No more, no longer. In the Philippines, young Filipinos are often almost as tall as me.
When I visited Hong Kong recently, both the young Chinese men and women were a bit taller than me at McDonald’s. I am average height for my generation of Australian men.
via Why a country’s average height is a good way of measuring its development | News | The Guardian.
RT Save the children, stop supporting Greenpeace
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Save the kids, stop supporting @Greenpeace!
#GoldenRice goldenrice.org/Content3-Why/w… http://t.co/5gBWNFJswA—
Urs Bolt (@UrsBolt) December 08, 2014
Both Venezuelan and Singapore were ruled by socialist strongmen
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: autocracy, capitalism and freedom, Singapore, Venezuela
Bad luck http://t.co/EaIoiqnjbR—
TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) March 28, 2015
Singapore’s Peoples Action Party was expelled from Socialist International in 1976. There is widespread government ownership of businesses in Singapore. So much so, that a new term was invented for it: Government Linked Corporations.
An essay on Lee Kuan Yew, the man who remade Asia on.wsj.com/1BR9YD4 http://t.co/hxG2p7ECpX—
David Crawshaw (@davewsj) March 28, 2015
Earth Hour celebrates ignorance, poverty and backwardness
29 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of media and culture, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Marxist economics, technological progress Tags: Earth Hour
Great Quote on Earth Hour, which Celebrates Ignorance, Poverty and Backwardness #HAH2015 aei.org/publication/ea… http://t.co/775bQhpiBs—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) March 28, 2015
What matters for your income is your country not your class
29 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
More on the previous: What matters for your income is your country not your class http://t.co/FEoiKpXzVg—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) March 28, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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