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5 Cancer Survival Rates by Cancer Type 1977 – 2018

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape

The Great Escape

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape

But @BernieSanders is spot on; a Chinese communist hero of his made a big difference to extreme poverty

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, China, extreme poverty, The Great Escape

Bernie Sanders tries to praise communist China, ends up accidentally praising free-market principles: “They have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization, so they’ve done a lot of things for their people” pic.twitter.com/FqNQkOKBwG

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 27, 2019

Africa is dragging its feet

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Robert Lucas on income distribution

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact

It is forgotten how grateful the public was for the polio vaccine

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by Jim Rose in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, The Great Escape, vaccinations, vaccines

The Great Escape in child mortality

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, extreme poverty, infant mortality, The Great Escape

Each box represents the total number of child deaths for each specific cause.

15% of all child deaths are due to Pneumonia and other lower respiratory diseases
10% are due to diarrheal diseases
45% of all deaths are caused by infectious diseases pic.twitter.com/QLXeswfZNA

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) August 10, 2019

China and India will not forgo their economic development

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Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap

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by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape

Something for @Greenpeace @Oxfam to boo

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Paul Krugman on virtue signaling over sweatshop labour in export industries in poor countries

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice Tags: child labour, The Great Escape

"Scandinavian socialism" might look good on the surface to workers in New Zealand, but it maintains its wealth through exploitation of cheap labour in the global south, just like other Western nations including NZ, Australia, Canada, and of course the USAhttps://t.co/FBrloUl3ba
— Organise Aotearoa: For decolonial communism (@OrgAotearoa) July 20, 2019

From https://slate.com/business/1997/03/in-praise-of-cheap-labor.html

The scourge of polio

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape, vaccines

An update on the fight against polio:
In the early 1980s more than 350,000 people suffered from paralytic polio cases every year.

In the last 12 months there were 159 cases of polio globally (https://t.co/Te6piKEB2x)
[More research you find in our entry https://t.co/9pIYsh0vUD] pic.twitter.com/6JF1yBPiUc

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 10, 2019

#OTD

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The Great Escape

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape

The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 65 years later.
Africa: 32% ↘ 8%
Asia: 25% ↘ 4%
Oceania: 9% ↘ 3%
Latin America: 20% ↘ 2%
Northern America: 4% ↘ 0.6%
Europe: 11% ↘ 0.6%
Globally: 22% ↘ 4.5%

From our publication @OurWorldInData. pic.twitter.com/gjcpffSSgv

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 13, 2019

3 People Who Probably Saved Your Life

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by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape

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