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Evidence grows of mass kidnappings of Oxfam activists – how else could they have been silenced?

15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, technological progress Tags: activists, do gooders, extreme poverty, global poverty, infant mortality, Left-wing hypocrisy, life expectancies, mass kidnappings, ODA, overseas aid, Oxfam, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

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The biggest success of our time: Child mortality is decreasing rapidly. Everywhere!

More at: OurWorldInData.org/data/populatio… http://t.co/FhdbQeheUd—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 13, 2015

Staggering #inequality: top 1% will own 50% of world's wealth by 2016. Help #EvenitUp! act.oxfam.org/new-zealand/ev… http://t.co/KX9GR2VSo5—
Oxfam New Zealand (@oxfamnz) January 19, 2015

Fossil fuel companies get more subsidies than all the public health spending globally. It's time to #GoCoalFree http://t.co/gsDIocxAq9—
Oxfam New Zealand (@oxfamnz) June 08, 2015

Poverty lines can lead to results stranger than fiction

15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: China, measurement errors, poverty lines

@MaxCRoser, rather bizarre that this series puts the poverty rate in the UK as more than double that of China! http://t.co/X9KHzlu54I—
Will L (@wjl2133) June 15, 2015

Beijing by night

14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, energy economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Beijing, China

MT @MaxCRoser: #Beijing lights at night. Left: 1992, right: 2009 #China #cities #development #geographyteacher http://t.co/gPbaePQv9b—
Stephen Matthews (@srmdrummer) February 16, 2015

@oxfamnz @GreenpeaceNZ Further evidence of mass kidnappings of principled environmentalists – indoor pollution version

14 Jul 2015 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, energy economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: air pollution, climate alarmists, expressive voting, global warming, green hypocrisy, indoor pollution, Kuznets curve, rational irrationality, The Great Escape

The deadliest environmental problem today is indoor air pollution — killing 4 million a year. vox.com/2014/9/15/6150… http://t.co/xtwLRfkVF2—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) June 11, 2015

Global poverty is in free fall – what does Oxfam have to say about what caused this?

14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, ODA, overseas aid, Oxfam, professional activists, professional do-gooders, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts vox.com/2015/7/13/8908… http://t.co/cBbN4L0dqF—
Vox (@voxdotcom) July 13, 2015

The Great Escape in Chinese life expectancies by age bracket

14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, China, life expectancies, The Great Escape

Life Expectancy by Age – for all countries in the world: bit.ly/1Ba1R8G

The chart shows progress in #China. http://t.co/z5IpbMkeFW—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) March 30, 2015

A stunning aspect of The Great Escape since my parents were born

13 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Africa, British economy, British history, child mortality, child poverty, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

"Today, children in sub-Saharan Africa are more likely…"—Prof. Angus Deaton, @Princeton
Data: buff.ly/1K2tELk http://t.co/lrTdiLi3F7—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) July 12, 2015

Who are the top 10 in foreign remittances?

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by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply Tags: economics of the family, remittances

William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

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We now know that extreme poverty can be eradicated within one more generation

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

"We now know that extreme poverty can be eradicated within one more generation." — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon http://t.co/hMjKtYlh5h—
RFE/RL (@RFERL) July 07, 2015

Creative destruction in Chinese tourism

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by Jim Rose in development economics, growth miracles Tags: China, creative destruction, economics of tourism

Astonishing chart: How much money is spent by Chinese tourists each year, via dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfront.net/sites/all/file… http://t.co/qfVsavbNsV—
Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) July 12, 2015

The Great Escape in China, India and Indonesia

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: China, India, Indonesia, life expectancies, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

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

Naomi Klein versus The Great Fact

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by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: activists, do gooders, evidence-based policy, extreme poverty, global poverty, Naomi Klein, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact

71% of the world live on less than $10 per day buff.ly/1D5kA3c http://t.co/GLCifBBOGP—
Business Insider (@businessinsider) July 11, 2015

Extreme poverty declined > 50% from 1.9 bil in '90 to 836 mil today: on.undp.org/Ppj00 #WPD2015 #MDGs http://t.co/vUDO5AYd4H—
UN Development (@UNDP) July 12, 2015

via Winning the War on World Poverty – Bloomberg View.

The number of ‘low-income’ countries halved since 1994

12 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

MAP showing location of 31 low-income countries, fewest since 1994; only 4 are outside Africa gu.com/p/4abxb/stw http://t.co/R0rzLzP6cc—
Mark Anderson (@MarkC_Anderson) July 10, 2015

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The Great Escape: infant mortality since 1990

10 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child poverty, extreme poverty, global poverty, infant mortality, life expectancies, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

Child mortality declined in all world regions.

Here is by how much: http://t.co/06lS3ZELKr—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 26, 2015

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