Child mortality is decreasing throughout Africa.
From my project: bit.ly/1IfQSjg http://t.co/jqA30V6GWq—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 26, 2015
The Great Escape – Child mortality is falling in Africa
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
The robots are coming, the robots are coming – been there, done that in Japan
12 May 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, innovation, Japan, technological unemployment
When I was a kid, I used to like reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I read them from cover to cover.
One of the things I recalled from the Encyclopaedia Britannica was that in 1961 nearly half of the Japanese workforce worked in the agricultural sector.
I notice that anomaly when I was reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Japan in the 1970s. Japan had undergoing an economic transformation since my Encyclopaedia Britannica’s were written in 1961. It was very much out of date.
Australian manufacturing was being outcompeted in every direction from automobiles to clothing and footwear by the Japanese manufacturing sector back when I was a teenager.
The Japanese economic miracle absorbed the Japanese agricultural labour force without anybody having time to shout "the robots are coming, the robots are coming".
There is a lesson in there somewhere for the current breathless journalism, with far too many academic fellow travellers about "the robots are coming, the robots are coming".
When I was a student at graduate school in Japan, I visited a Japanese factory in 1996 that was completely automated bar one function. Only once did a human hand actually touch the electrical goods they were making. Naturally, at the Q&A session at the end of our visit, I asked when was his job going to be automated.
The killer air pollution that the Greens never mention
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
4.3 million die every year. Indoor air pollution is the least reported problem of the world. bit.ly/1BfMiZg http://t.co/CDhafWSbj8—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 07, 2015
Maybe joining Euroland isn’t that bad after all
08 May 2015 Leave a comment
in business cycles, currency unions, development economics, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), growth miracles, international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Eastern Europe, Euroland, European Union, Eurosclerosis, transitional economies
#Dailychart: How "New Europe" has fared on its tenth birthday econ.st/1fwOg33 http://t.co/AvkCqHmzAf—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) May 01, 2014
When will capitalism abolish poverty?
06 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Global poverty is rapidly falling, says @BrookingsInst: buff.ly/1PM4Mdr #progress http://t.co/nGzbnxSHnp—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) April 29, 2015
When will Paul Ehrlich’s food riots be starting?
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, population economics, resource economics Tags: agricultural economics, doomsday prophets, ecological economics, Paul Ehrlich, population bomb, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
"Although the size and wealth of the human population has shot up…"—Jesse H. Ausubel. buff.ly/1Gz5vb8 http://t.co/ZvnnhV9aXH—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) April 30, 2015
Despite a recent uptick, food prices have been declining for over a century, says @chellivia: j.mp/1Evos3r http://t.co/perdLhFods—
Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) April 24, 2015
Even taking population growth into account, food production per person is actually increasing: j.mp/1Qo0fPt http://t.co/VH0NieLMOX—
Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) April 23, 2015
Climate experts @PaulREhrlich says we all died during the 1980s http://t.co/C7k1Qc4B4O—
Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) May 14, 2015
The Great Fact in East Asia
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact
https://twitter.com/humanprogress/status/594875847552675841/photo/1
As China grew freer economically, its poverty rate fell. buff.ly/1DiVIow http://t.co/8upmR6NUvV—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) April 26, 2015
Why was the Nepalese earthquakes so bad?
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of natural disasters, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, earthquakes, Nepal, richer is safer, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, wealthier is healthier
Prosperity strengthens resilience against disasters. buff.ly/1JORl8y #Nepal #EarthQuakeResponse http://t.co/yx4E98QJn6—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) April 28, 2015
The development economics of Bono
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Music Tags: Bono, ODA, overseas aid, U2
Organic farming versus world hunger
04 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, extreme poverty, global poverty, world under
Poverty under capitalism
03 May 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Behold: The most important economic chart in Western civilization. ow.ly/Moa2h @JimPethokoukis http://t.co/s1lzl1HLb9—
(@AEI) May 01, 2015
Global poverty in the digital age
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: cell phones, Digital poverty, extreme poverty, global poverty, Internet access, mobile phones, technology diffusion
How the Internet is changing the lives of the poor — if they can get on on.wsj.com/1IGuFqL http://t.co/LuBE72AQPW—
Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 22, 2015
No mention of healthier is wealthier, richer is safer
02 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: climate alarmism, do gooders, global warming, World Bank
5 ways to reduce the drivers of climate change: 1) Put a price on carbon: wrld.bg/LBatf http://t.co/JZRHZliCSm—
World Bank (@WorldBank) April 17, 2015
The Great Fact in China
30 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles Tags: China
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