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A toilet boom

26 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: India

India is on the greatest toilet-building spree in human history, and it’s a windfall for companies.https://t.co/GMyfnJH2W2 pic.twitter.com/PRLG9wjBbv

— Bloomberg Graphics (@BBGVisualData) July 31, 2018

The growth of cities

25 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, urban economics Tags: The Great Enrichment

How cool is this! 25 Years of Urban Growth and Density Change in 66 Global Cities. Source: https://t.co/waGxkYO5uH pic.twitter.com/8mdGLI85Bq

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) August 7, 2018

#OTD

22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact

Bill Gates: Can GMOs end world hunger by 2030? @greenpeacenz @oxfamnz

20 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: anti-GMOs movement, Anti-Science left, GMOs, pessimism bias

The Population Bomb? | Retro Report | @nytimes @EricCrampton @_jamiewhyte

19 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, population economics, Public Choice, urban economics Tags: ageing society, baby bust, child mortality, population bomb, The Great Escape

Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes

16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth miracles, urban economics Tags: Hong Kong

The Great Fact

13 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

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United States and India: Two of the world’s worst countries for women? | FACTUAL FEMINIST

12 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, discrimination, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics Tags: gender gap, pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left

Free To Choose 1980 – The Power of the Market – Hong Kong

08 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Milton Friedman, poverty and inequality Tags: Hong Kong, The Great Fact

Does China Run Hollywood?

07 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth miracles, movies Tags: China

Whatever happened to the food riots predicted by Ehrlich?

05 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: agricultural economics, pessimism bias, The Great Escape

#Marx200

03 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

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Against pessimism bias

01 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment

🐫➡️🐪 The world is better! Now I can do the laundry while listening to the audiobook ENLIGHTMENT NOW, where Steven (@sapinker) describs the graph I sent him of 2-humped cameI metamorphing into 1 hump when billions escaped extreme poverty! This was impossible a few years ago! pic.twitter.com/RUweRFccOI

— Ola Rosling (@OlaRosling) March 28, 2018

No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes

31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of corruption

Another day in the Great Escape

29 Jul 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

The world really is getting better:

Since yesterday:
Life expectancy went up by 9.5 hours
137,000 came out of poverty
305,000 got safer water
295,000 got electricity
620,000 got online for the first time

Thanks to @MaxCRoser & his incredible websitehttps://t.co/2r4lB6e03D pic.twitter.com/X3RNx1Jmpy

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) July 22, 2018

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A toilet boom

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