Even Afghanistan has high rates of mobile phone penetration

16 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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And @Oxfam thinks inequality allows the rich to gobble up 88% of the gains from economic development in poor countries

15 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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Stigler on Galbraith’s 1977 TV series episode on colonialism

14 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, television Tags:

McCloskey on the denial of The Great Enrichment

13 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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The Great Fact that is never celebrated by @Greenpeace @oxfam @NZGreens @JulieAnneGenter because capitalism is to blame

12 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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Dollar Street

11 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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Most of the world today has better than the best life expectancy anywhere in 1950. The worst life expectancy today anywhere is better than most of the world in 1950 @oxfam

09 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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The Great Enrichment

01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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Top 10 Country GDP Ranking History (1960-2017)

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Start the year on a happy note

01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

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Bjorn Lomborg: Fighting Poverty with Fossil Fuels

31 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

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The world in pictures

31 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

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Smog in China: ‘Beijing is extremely uncomfortable’ | @Guardian Explainers

30 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

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The Great Escape

30 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

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The power of vaccines

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