Source: United Nations
World, high income, middle income and low income country fertility rates since 1950
28 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, population economics Tags: demographic transition, economics of fertility, The Great Escape
World population living in extreme poverty, 1820-2015
25 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Breast cancer death rates in the USA, Australia and England and Wales since 1950
24 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: cancer rates, life expectancies, The Great Escape
Source: HumanProgress.org from International Agency for Research on Cancer, Updated 17 June, 2015.
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Fossil fuels and The Great Escape
09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, energy poverty, extreme poverty, India, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Coal is the best resource we have in the fight to end poverty
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: coal prices, rational irrationality, The Great Escape
Improvements in remaining life expectancy of Australians aged 25 to 29 since 1990
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, population economics Tags: Australia, life expectancies, The Great Escape
The graph shows how many years you have left if aged 25 to 29 in 1990.
Source: Life Expectancy: progress from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence.
How is The Great Escape going in #NewZealand?
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
Causes of maternal deaths in New Zealand since 1980
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: maternal mortality, The Great Escape
BS @WorldBank that #climateaction = no sacrifice 4 poor countries @cjsnowdon @RichardTol @BjornLomborg @WBG_Climate
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: climate alarmism, The Great Escape
Night-light maps shows huge need 4 #infrastructure investment in African #cities. Video: wrld.bg/Ufzpy https://t.co/BJXzwAZPyE—
World Bank (@WorldBank) November 10, 2015
The Great Escape into the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Latin America, The Great Escape, Withering away of the proletariat
Source: World Bank Economic slowdown puts the brakes on middle class growth in Latin America | The Data Blog
One of the rich countries so glum
28 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, growth miracles Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The Great Escape in one picture of fertility and infant mortality
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, economics of fertility, infant mortality, The Great Escape
Extreme poverty in Uganda, Swaziland and Botswana @jasonhickel @Carolyn_nth
17 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: antimarket bias, Botswana, economics of AIDS, life expectancies, reactionary left, Swaziland, The Great Escape, Uganda
Since 1985, extreme poverty has halved in Botswana and dropped by a 3rd in Swaziland and Uganda.
Source: World Poverty – Our World In Data.
Life expectancies are increasing again in Swaziland and Botswana after the HIV epidemic has come under more control.
Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence
Source: Life Expectancy by Age in selected Country from 1990 to 2013 | Health Intelligence
Closer to achieving #foodsecurity in #WestAfrica w/ 60% decline in under-nourished since 90s bit.ly/1M1Fzvt https://t.co/ezPM05lbEo—
(@OECD) October 28, 2015
The battle against Polio in Africa http://t.co/LYB2nGZlAB—
Amazing Maps™ (@amazingmap) June 30, 2015
"Freedom is making gradual progress in Africa…the trends are in the right direction" @bill_easterly #hayek15 https://t.co/Ua1GON7ha2—
IEA (@iealondon) December 02, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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