By 2050, there could be up to 142 million missing women, mostly from China and India: https://t.co/RrAfVhZbMt pic.twitter.com/kYFTPj6AcE
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) November 28, 2015
The impact of one child policy on birth sex ratios
08 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, population economics Tags: China. one-child policy, The fatal conceit
how India will pass China to become world’s most populous country
05 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics, growth miracles, population economics Tags: ageing society, China, economics of fertility, India, Population demographics
Creative destruction in African dictators
04 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, capitalism and freedom
If poverty could be solved by experts, we’d have solved it in 30s @HelenClarkUNDP
03 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles
@350 @GreenpeaceUSA want to keep poor countries in energy poverty
03 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmentalism, growth miracles
Share of world poverty has halved in last 20 years
29 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, expressive voting, extreme poverty The Great Fact, global poverty, rational ignorance, rational rationality, voter demographics
https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/630066216158261248/photo/1
Since 1820 the world's population increased 7x while extreme poverty fell from 94% to 14%. buff.ly/1hgHIrb http://t.co/0dx4GE4Uqc—
Jeremiah Dillon (@jeremiahdillon) August 07, 2015
World is now experiencing greatest child mortality reduction ever
27 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, health economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
There are now more mobile phones than people
26 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation Tags: cell phones, creative destruction, international technology diffusion, living standards, mobile phones, technology diffusion
How the World Income distribution changed during the last 50 years @jeremycorbyn
23 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Twitter left
Solar and wind in India will remain uncompetitive for the next 25 years
21 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: India, solar energy, wind power
Peak China
20 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, population economics Tags: China, offsetting behaviour, one child policy, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
What Do the Newly Released Poverty Figures Show?
20 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, The Great Escape, World Bank
It’s World Toilet Day Today
19 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: extreme poverty, health and sanitation
On World Toilet Day, this #Dailychart explains why the world must build toilets to save lives econ.st/1F3ppfK http://t.co/zJJ2jT09yw—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) November 19, 2014
Lord Nicholas Stern – wrong from the start
19 Nov 2015 2 Comments
in development economics, economic history, history of economic thought, P.T. Bauer
Source: Nicholas Stern “Professor Bauer on development”, Journal of Development Economics (1974).
Source: “A Voice for the Poor”, The Economist (2 May 2002).
Source: Ian Vazquez “Peter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development”, Econ Journal Watch (May 2007).
The western environmental movement’s role in China’s one-child policy
19 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: China, cranks, doomsday profits, doomsday prophecies, one child policy
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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