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Chileans’ life expectancy is now higher than Americans’, while Venezuela’s still catching up

08 Feb 2016 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Chile, life expectancies, The Great Escape, Venezuela

Chileans' life expectancy is now higher than Americans', while Venezuela's still catching up https://t.co/PMJ9e3TTly pic.twitter.com/T8Nje1gmtK

— Human Progress (@HumanProgress) January 14, 2016

#TPPANoWay @oxfamNZ @GreenpeaceUSA The Effects of Globalization

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, Marxist economics Tags: customs unions, expressive voting, free trade, Leftover Left, ODA, preferential trading agreements, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, TPA, TPPA, Twitter left, Tyler Cowen

@OwenJones84 @K_Niemietz Venezuelan, Chilean and Chinese index of economic freedom rankings 2016

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, public economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, Chile, China, The Great Escape, Venezuela

Source: Index of Economic Freedom: Promoting Economic Opportunity and Prosperity by Country.

Poverty’s development 1800-2015

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, technological progress Tags: global poverty, industrial revolution, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

Wonderful @HansRosling video on poverty's development, 1800-2015 – no longer rich and poor but more middle https://t.co/NsYQt3BuPW

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) January 12, 2016

Despite population growth, see how the total number of people in extreme poverty has fallen

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

Despite population growth, see how the total number of people in extreme poverty has fallen https://t.co/ElFYMnXLHP pic.twitter.com/aMfccMQN7Z

— Human Progress (@HumanProgress) January 15, 2016

Economic Freedom in Action: Changing Lives

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Escape

138,000 people out of poverty every day for 25 years while @oxfamnz claimed neo-liberalism ruined the world

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, Marxist economics Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, overseas aid, Oxfam, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

New data: 138,000 people out of poverty every day for 25 years, while you claimed neo-liberalism ruined the world. pic.twitter.com/kvSoMSa9DY

— Johan Norberg (@johanknorberg) October 5, 2015

Chinese and Korean food consumption

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by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China, North Korea. South Korea, The Great Escape

More Chinese & S. Koreans have full plates, but North Korea's food consumption has stagnated https://t.co/LjbKxaMJDn pic.twitter.com/E18WHYrF2D

— Human Progress (@HumanProgress) January 24, 2016

India’s child mortality is falling, nearing the British rate

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

India's child mortality is falling, nearing the British rate. https://t.co/wkuLKlYi7o #health #progress pic.twitter.com/Fef99I2pb9

— Human Progress (@HumanProgress) December 26, 2015

62 billionaires alert: extreme poverty could have fallen so much faster?

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, extreme poverty, global poverty, Leftover Left, ODA, overseas aid, rational irrationality, superstars, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/690629970595573761

The share of the world living in poverty is declining faster than ever before https://t.co/3Dshe53QWd pic.twitter.com/okLXLpbjGB

— Max Galka (@galka_max) January 22, 2016

Inequality between nations has undergone an “unprecedented decline in the last decade” @galka_max pic.twitter.com/IZLaZSolXa

— Ninja Economics (@NinjaEconomics) January 20, 2016

Globalisation is Good – Johan Norberg on Globalisation

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth miracles, international economics, Marxist economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, globalisation, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

@johanknorberg another good chart w same conclusion. Must be sad for leftists when the data contradict their believes pic.twitter.com/Mtro0Zsm4R

— Eduardo Azevedo A. (@ocartesiano) October 5, 2015

62 Billionaires alert: technology diffusion could have been so much faster but for their profit-taking

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by Jim Rose in economic history, entrepreneurship, poverty and inequality Tags: superstars, The Great Escape, The Great Fact

The present rate of technology adoption is nearly a vertical line —@blackrock pic.twitter.com/3oS3YAI4ld

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) January 22, 2016

There were 60+ new unicorns in 2015. Will there be more or less in 2016? https://t.co/PQkqNXCdEn pic.twitter.com/Z2yV474fYL

— Ninja Economics (@NinjaEconomics) January 18, 2016

In 2015, the world saw a historic decline in global poverty

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history Tags: global poverty, The Great Escape

In 2015, the world saw a historic decline in global poverty, reports @zackbeauchamp https://t.co/LiycLBdysn pic.twitter.com/9Xyk2lQqM4

— Urban Institute (@urbaninstitute) December 24, 2015

Life expectancy at birth over the last hundred years

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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, history of economic thought Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape

Great chart. Life expectancy at birth over the last hundred years. Amazing profess. But sad to see some drops. pic.twitter.com/1TSb00C4GQ

— Paul Kirby (@paul1kirby) January 15, 2016

The number of people living in extreme poverty, 1990-2030

14 Jan 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: extreme poverty, global poverty, The Great Escape

The number of people living in extreme poverty, 1990-2030 https://t.co/OsTmqB3PSC #dataviz HT @maptive pic.twitter.com/kv13YLigNc

— Max Galka (@galka_max) January 2, 2016

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