What Oxfam doesn’t want you to know: global poverty has been declining faster than at any point in human history
23 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, Leftover Left, Oxfam, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
If I could only show one graph on The Great Fact
21 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Global median income doubled(!) over the last 10 years.
And inequality falling further.bit.ly/1JRwv90 http://t.co/lkAi265DaY—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 20, 2015
The Great Fact: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030
19 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty The Great Fact, global poverty, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
A look at hunger reduction → performance + projections by region: brook.gs/1FWLLOS http://t.co/ELNzKn6BCQ—
Brookings Global (@BrookingsGlobal) June 16, 2015
The breath-taking scale of family remittances
16 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: economics of immigration, family remittances
Celebrate the 1st Int'l Day of #Family #Remittances w/ @IFADnews @WorldBank wrld.bg/OlxrU http://t.co/D0Cw3wtaMI—
World Bank (@WorldBank) June 16, 2015
The Great Fact in one chart
16 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty The Great Fact
Fewer people in the world are poor.
(From: econ.st/1KMw52Y) http://t.co/K1U3O4NZk2—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 07, 2015
Where was malaria once prevalent?
14 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: endemic diseases, global warming, infectious diseases, malaria, The Great Escape
Malaria was prevalent in Europe & USA
More in my Visual History of Global Health: OurWorldInData.org/VisualHistoryO… http://t.co/Fm21vXZJkS—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 08, 2015
Have the mass kidnappings extended to Oxfam and other principled ODA activists?
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, Left-wing hypocrisy, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Oxfam and other ODA activists should be dancing in the streets to celebrate the doubling of global median income in the last 10 years.
This is awesome news!!
Global median income has doubled(!) over the last 10 yearsNew paper: bit.ly/1JRwv90 http://t.co/4cq6x5pXpu—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 17, 2015
The only reason for them not doing this as they must have been kidnapped en mass.
Staggering #inequality: Top 1% will own 50% of world's wealth by 2016. Help us to #EvenItUp! http://t.co/NcNOqVcTgS—
Oxfam International (@Oxfam) March 20, 2015
We can only hope for their safe release.
Securing a just world means challenging the power of the 1% say civil society groups #WSF2015 oxf.am/ZfkL http://t.co/r2S0lkBoC2—
Oxfam New Zealand (@oxfamnz) March 23, 2015
Lower prices for oil/other commodities have intensified the slowdown in dev'ing countries wrld.bg/O9hq8 #GEP http://t.co/2IsmedNmgW—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) June 11, 2015
Composition of the bottom 40% of the population in #LAC countries: wrld.bg/NkKZP #sharedprosperity http://t.co/MdublHSp59—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) June 09, 2015
The extreme poor live in conflict & rural areas: wrld.bg/Nynge #endpoverty http://t.co/43HDDI11JR—
World Bank (@WorldBank) May 31, 2015
Increases in global life expectancy by region and cause
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancy, The Great Escape
Solar power versus economic development
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: renewable energy, solar power
Who will be the 20 largest economies in 2030?
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, growth miracles, macroeconomics Tags: China, convergence, India, Japan
These will be the world’s 20 largest economies in 2030 bloom.bg/1IzgMhl http://t.co/KADxgakbEj—
Bloomberg VisualData (@BBGVisualData) May 20, 2015
The Great Escape: winning the war on disease
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, life expectancy, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The price, output and acreage effects of a GMO ban
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, technological progress Tags: agricultural economics, expressive voting, extreme poverty, global hunger, global poverty, GMOs, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Fact
Organic farming is a gift….
facebook.com/welovegv http://t.co/iu8Jq0KcHD—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 05, 2015
Projected increases in corn and soy prices in a world without GMOs
ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/2049… http://t.co/PNydjpl59K—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If you outlaw GMOs, be prepared to bring millions of acres of forest land, cropland & pasture under farming http://t.co/H9ftkxhXYe—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
If GMOs are banned today in the US, what would be the crop yield reduction? http://t.co/pEn73PODcR—
C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) June 08, 2015
The rapid rise of the middle-class in developing countries
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles Tags: China, India, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Climate change saving hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, agricultural economics, climate alarmism, drought, extreme poverty, famine, global poverty, global warming
Climate change saving hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa
thetimes.co.uk/tto/environmen…
@BarackObama hates that. http://t.co/cneiSS60wT—
Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) June 02, 2015
The withering away the proletariat from the rise of the middle-class in underdeveloped countries
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Age of Milton Friedman, The Great Fact
#Dailychart: Workers in poor countries are climbing out of poverty econ.st/1tJXtb4 http://t.co/Z8saGkMa4e—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) May 27, 2014
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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