A look at hunger reduction → performance + projections by region: brook.gs/1FWLLOS http://t.co/ELNzKn6BCQ—
Brookings Global (@BrookingsGlobal) June 16, 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
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
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
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 Great Fact in one chart
01 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
The demographics of extreme poverty
31 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Fact, World Bank
The extreme poor live in conflict & rural areas: wrld.bg/Nynge #endpoverty http://t.co/43HDDI11JR—
World Bank (@WorldBank) May 31, 2015
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
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
The charts that Oxfam doesn’t want you to see
29 Apr 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, Leftover Left, Oxfam, The Great Fact
https://twitter.com/FraserNelson/status/557288908216864768/photo/1
@stranglershands em, i respectfully disagree (attached) http://t.co/vmqoj1AV28—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) January 19, 2015
Only one line in this chart about India matters, ever
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, India, Leftover Left, poverty and inequality
In #India poverty is falling very, very rapidly – while inequality is rising.
More at: bit.ly/1KLT8Lh http://t.co/t5d1LQR4l0—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 27, 2015
Technology diffusion in poor countries is quickening
24 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, technological progress Tags: global poverty, international technology diffusion, technology diffusion, The Great Fact
A 10% increase in the use of the internet in a country can lead to a 1.9% increase in trade: wrld.bg/LYPXu http://t.co/TdjRTz69fW—
World Bank (@WorldBank) April 23, 2015
It is India, not China that will be the standout growth miracle between now and 2030
18 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, China, extreme poverty, global poverty, India
Cell phones are pretty well everywhere now
16 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: cellphones, global poverty
Smartphones are coming to Africa: penetration rate expected to exceed 50% in 2019 http://t.co/aYpxoWDOyN—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) March 05, 2015
Where will be the remnants of extreme poverty in 2030?
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Fact
Hot off the press: @WorldBank publishes new global poverty estimates and forecasts. 1.01 billion < $1.25/day in 2011 http://t.co/cGfdEAdOMo—
Laurence Chandy (@laurencechandy) October 08, 2014
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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